Layla Maryam Razavi

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Layla Maryam Razavi

Layla Maryam Razavi

@LaylaMRazavi

Movement lawyer tweeting about immigrant rights, global migration & the Iranian diaspora. Frmrly @ACLU

Katılım Kasım 2015
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Layla Maryam Razavi
Layla Maryam Razavi@LaylaMRazavi·
A Reagan-era federal judge gave the most scathing rebuke to the administration - finding they violated the first amendment rights of Khalil, Ozturk, and other student protesters…. And sandwiched his decision into a reply to a note he received asking what he can do to stop Trump.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick

I gasped when I saw the front page of this decision; Judge Young includes a postcard sent to him asking "Trump has pardons and tanks ... what do you have?" He responds "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People ... have our magnificent Constitution."

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Yashar Ali 🐘
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar·
Trump is threatening to place ICE agents at airports in place of the TSA and says they will arrest “illegal immigrants” entering the country — but people generally don’t arrive at airports without a visa or from a visa-waiver country. Those who enter through airports typically come legally and then overstay. Also, ICE agents would need to be trained — so that’s about 2-3 weeks.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez
Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez@repdeliaramirez·
Republicans in the Senate have rejected funding TSA 9 times.

Deploying ICE agents— whose lawlessness and racial profiling have put us all at risk— to the airports is another disaster waiting to happen.

Republicans need to fund TSA and other essential functions. We must abolish Trump's terror force, ICE, and dismantle DHS.
ABC News@ABC

Transportation Secretary Duffy says ICE agents are trained and can assist TSA at airports abcnews.link/SlnFxPZ

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick·
A unsurprising but still shocking decision from the Trump-packed MSPB which would eviscerate over a century of civil service protections and allow political firings of any federal employee.
Ben Penn@benjaminpenn

NEW: Federal panel issues 'extraordinary' ruling supporting constitionality of Trump federal worker firings, determining Attorney General had Article II power to remove immigration judges news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/im…

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs
Congresswoman Sara Jacobs@RepSaraJacobs·
I met toddlers at Dilley who were so anxious and depressed that they couldn’t eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom – let alone play. This is state-sanctioned child abuse and it needs to end now. thecut.com/article/immigr…
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Layla Maryam Razavi@LaylaMRazavi·
@kshahrooz Out of date now but was in RE to a barrage of Iranian women ganging up on a young Palestinian woman who called out Iranians for projecting their struggle w WLF onto Palestinian women. When I saw a middle age real estate agent in OC w money going after a 25 yr old Gazan I lost it.
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Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز
"I shilled for Trump because I assumed he'd only do the awful things he campaigned on to people with darker skin than mine."
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Layla Maryam Razavi@LaylaMRazavi·
@kshahrooz …is through coalition w other communities. And when you routinely hold your community as being more educated and white and deserving then you will not be able to build w other communities. And you lose. I made a whole video about this and she commented calling me NIAC 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Layla Maryam Razavi@LaylaMRazavi·
@kshahrooz Thank you for calling her out. She’s hateful and honestly people with these attitudes are exactly why it has been so hard to organize the Iranian diaspora in the US. As someone who works in social justice and immigrant justice spaces, the only way you have electoral power
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Congressman Greg Casar
Congressman Greg Casar@RepCasar·
Carmen Mejia was exonerated after spending 20 years in prison for a crime she did not commit. Now, ICE may pick her up because she lost her immigration status due to that wrongful conviction. Carmen should not spend one more day wrongfully detained.
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Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom·
Listen to the ages. 14 months. 17 months. 22 months. 6 years old. Pregnant women unconscious. Pregnant women seizing. These are the 911 calls coming out of ICE’s Dilley detention center. If a place keeps sending babies, toddlers, children, and pregnant women to emergency responders, that place is not providing care. It is a medical crisis in America’s new concentration camps. So how can PAXIS.app help with a situation like this? PAXIS explains: The response must be disciplined and public: • Preserve the evidence — every 911 call, every hospital transfer, every timeline. • Protect the families — document symptoms, dates, names, and medical records. • Demand independent review — not internal reassurances.• Keep the spotlight on the pattern. Children in respiratory distress should not need an ambulance to escape a detention facility. Pregnant women should not have to collapse before anyone listens. A system that repeatedly sends babies to the ER is not providing care. KEEP FIGHTING ICE: gofundme.com/f/PAXIS
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Mike Levin
Mike Levin@MikeLevin·
This story cannot keep flying under the radar. A ProPublica investigation uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars in financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they are supposed to regulate. That is not just a conflict of interest. It is corruption, plain and simple. This is the most corrupt administration in American history, by far. propublica.org/article/trump-…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick·
This is an INCREDIBLE act of bravery. 22 men who the Trump administration sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial are willing to face indefinite detention in the United States just to PROVE their innocence. Another 68 seek full trials abroad to clear their names.
Roger Parloff@rparloff

.@ACLU has reached 90 of the ~137 Venezuelans sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, then prisoner-swapped to VZ. 90 of 91 want to challenge their Tren de Aragua designation: 22 by coming back to USA (tho they’ll be detained) & 68 in written petitions. 1/3

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Layla Maryam Razavi@LaylaMRazavi·
@kshahrooz this part, i never supported the war but understood why many felt it was necessary or the only option. what i don't understand is the blind indifference to the suffering of other iranians who did not have the same fortune or circumstances to leave. that could be any of us.
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Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز
I was a child during the Iran-Iraq air bombing and, in my 40s, am still frightened by loud thunder. It's a bit of PTSD I carry. I support this war, but don't understand the ghouls that dance about it. There's an immense cost, now and for years to come.
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Jesus Freakin Congress
Jesus Freakin Congress@TheJFreakinC·
🚨BREAKING: DHS agents are now illegally arresting U.S. citizens at airports… and trafficking them across state lines. A 28-year-old U.S. citizen, Sunny Naqvi, was detained by DHS, for 43 hours, after landing at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. She wasn’t charged with a crime, and she wasn’t accused of doing anything illegal… Agents reportedly detained her over what they called a “curious travel history.” Even though Sunny was born in Illinois…they still disappeared her. After being held for about 30 hours inside the airport, agents secretly moved Sunny to an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. While this was happening, federal agents repeatedly told her family she was NOT in custody, even though her phone location showed she was inside the facility. Then it gets worse. According to witnesses, agents asked for Sunny’s phone number so they could “look for her phone.” Minutes later, the phone was opened, her messages were read, and the device was shut off, cutting off the family’s ability to track her. After that, agents transported the U.S. citizen across state lines, to another detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin. And then she was eventually released early Saturday morning… in a random state, alone. Her phone was dead, and she had no transportation. So, a U.S. citizen detained by the federal government had to hitchhike to a hotel, just to be able to reunite with her family. And this is what people need to understand… When federal agents can detain U.S. citizens without charges… lie to families about their custody, search personal phones, and secretly transport people across state lines… That puts every single American in danger. Because they can do it to anyone.
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