Hey, maybe do not come to the U.S. and call for the deaths of Jews and Americans, for the destruction of Israel and America, take over buildings, and show support for a US designated terrorist group
Takeaways about groups working to identify and report foreign student protesters
When President Donald Trump signed an order calling for the deportation of foreign students who participated in “pro-jihadist” protests of the war in Gaza, some supporters of the crackdown were already working to identify targets for expulsion.
Here are some key takeaways about the efforts by pro-Israel private groups to expose protesters using facial recognition and other means, and to report them to federal authorities.
Private groups experiment with facial recognition to identify protesters
A right-wing Jewish group said it used facial-recognition software to identify campus protesters and included them on a list submitted to administration officials earlier this year, seeking deportation.
A New York computer engineer who has built a facial-recognition tool designed to identify masked protesters said he has talked with other pro-Israel groups about licensing the software for their own efforts.
The use of facial-recognition technology by private groups enters territory previously reserved largely for law enforcement, said attorney Sejal Zota, who represents a group of California activists in a lawsuit against facial-recognition company ClearviewAI.
In other words, they only want The State to be able to try and pick out people. Of course, I remember The State asking private citizens to snitch on people caught on camera from J6. People who mostly just walked around the Capitol Building peacefully, who weren’t wishing death on people.
It’s unclear whether names from outside groups have reached top government officials, who have said that more arrests of international students are coming. But concern about the pursuit of activists has risen since the March 8 arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student of Palestinian descent who helped lead demonstrations against Israel’s conduct of the war.
“Now they’re using tools of the state to actually go after people,” said a Columbia graduate student from South Asia who has been active in protests and spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about losing her visa.
Let me explain something to you, Sparky from South Asia (would that be a nation overrun by Islamists?): We The People are meant to be in charge. The government works for us, not the other way around.
Some supporters of deportation say they’re focused on students whose activities go beyond protest, pointing to those who incite violence or occupy campus buildings illegally.
“If you’re here, right, on a student visa causing civil unrest … assaulting people on the streets, chanting for people’s death, why the heck did you come to this country?” said Eliyahu Hawila, the software engineer whose company built the tool designed to identify masked protesters.
Well, yeah. But, Democrats, and these foreigners, want to have their cake and eat it too. Seriously, what’s wrong with identifying the rioters? They did not flinch from identifying Jewish students and threatening Jewish/Israel sympathizers. Doxxing them. Harassing them. Assaulting them. There’s zero reason we should allow people into the U.S. who support Islamic extremism and want to destroy America. They don’t assimilate. They expect us to change for them.
And maybe the press should realize that they are acting as Useful Idiots for Islamic radicalism.
It’s not just to get them deported; those diabolical Jooooos have been ferreting out those anti-Semites, many of whom are American citizens and Democrats, and get them fired from their jobs. Considering that the pro-Palestinians want to get the Jews fired from life, I have little sympathy for them.
Being an anti-Semite, like being an Islamophobe, racist, LGBTQ-hater, white-supremacist etc is not against the law. Unlike formal fascist regimes, America has yet to criminalize thought (but just you wait!).
MAGAfascists intentionally conflate perfectly legal criticism of Israel’s actions with brutal Nazi-style anti-Semitism.
Our Terrorist from Tennessee-North has expressed his joy with Israel killing 10s of thousands of Palestinians.
What are “Palestinians”, J? Actually, no such thing. But if you repeat a lie enough, it might come true!
What are Jews? What are MAGAts?
Jill – You should try thinking for yourself rather than spewing what you’re told.
Elwood – You should try thinking for yourself rather than making shit up.
Carol Ann!
It’s been a long time! Hope you and yours are well! We’ll be in Joizy later in April.
BTW,
OK. So what is Palestine?
The region of Palestine is a geographical area that includes modern-day Israel and the State of Palestine (Gaza and West Bank), as well as parts of northwestern Jordan. Other names for the region include Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, or the Holy Land.
Worldwide, there are nearly as many Palestinians as persons who identify as Jews! There are about 7 million Jews in Israel. The State of Palestine encompasses the West Bank and Gaza strip, together with over 5 million Palestinians!
The right-wing attempt to de-humanize Palestinians is similar to the Nazis de-humanizing the Jews. Palestinians are brown and Muslim!!
Only bigots and fools argue that there is no such thing as a Palestinian.
BTW, I thunk up “MAGAt” on my own! So I was thinking for myself.
MAGAt = a devotee of MAGA and Trump
AP can’t be bothered to use Google before writing an article:
PBS News Hour, Jan 3, 2024, How citizen investigators are helping the FBI track down Jan. 6 rioters
Lawful residents, even legal aliens, are covered by our 1st Amendment rights. Peaceful protest is legal. Death threats are not. We believe in due process. The Secretary of State can use his power to revoke visas of anyone he/she or the prez doesn’t like.
If it is reasonably proved that they broke US or state laws, let ’em have it!!
That is what happened with the Jan 6 coup-ers.
Anyway, we get it. Conservative, christian, caucasian, semi-native MAGAts hate anyone who is not conservative, christian, caucasian, semi-native or MAGAt. Accordingly, Muslims here on visas complaining about Israel murdering 10s of thousands of Palestinian children, women and men should be deported! The problem, of course, is the lack of due process – residents abducted and whisked away. What if the MAGAt kidnappers make a mistake and send a US citizen to El Salvador where only Kristi “ICE Barbie” Noem can perform photo ops there?!?
Too funny-“Muslims complaining about Israel “murdering” 10s of thousands of “Palestinians” ….should be deported”. First of all, combatants killed in military action isn’t classified as murder, but the targeted killing of civilians can be. Israel doesn’t target civilians, but rather the brave warriors of Hamas tend to hide behind children and in hospitals and schools, hence the deaths.
And it has been interpreted that if not an American citizen, one can be deported for supporting a terrorist organization. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization.
If we had iPhones and the internet and social media in 1944, how many good Americans would be whining that we needed to have an immediate ceasefire, because of all of the innocent Germans and Japanese, kids even!, being killed by the vicious Allied bombing raids?
That’s what war is!
Unlike Hamas, the German and Japanese military weren’t hiding behind civilians, but were fighting at the fronts. We bombed factories and rail centers and utilities, but World War II bombing was not a surgically accurate thing; lots of stores and shops and hospitals and schools and homes were destroyed as well, all to weaken Axis war production and home front support.