> It's questionable whether his green card has actually been revoked either. Supposedly that requires proceedings to go through an immigration court and be approved by a judge, and as far as anyone knows that hasn't happened yet.

From this article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/9/mahmoud-khalil-stude... it says "A US immigration enforcement agent said Khalil’s permanent residency was also being revoked, according to the protest leader’s lawyer."

News coverage seems to suggest immigrants can be detained while moved to revoke their green cards are made, but it’s incredibly troubling that no one seems to know what’s up, the government agents arresting him seemed to think he had a student visa and in general there is so little visibility

Trump has stated that citizenship is now Calvinball, only he knows the rules. If they can disappear a permanent resident they can disappear you, too.

You're suggesting there was a previous administration that rounded up lawful permanent residents without court orders on US soil, on the charge that they committed forbidden speech?

previous administrations have done way worse clear all the way to fdr imprisoning citizens and wilson imprisoning debs.

I don't recall anything FDR did that called the citizenship of anyone into question. Debs was tried and convicted by a court.

> Debs was tried and convicted by a court.

oh yes. and he broke a law passed by congress. that makes it even MORE appalling, as all three branches were complicit in an egregious breach of the constitution, not a single one stopped to hold the line

Wasn't the internment of Japanese a thing back then?

Yes, but FDR's executive order allowed the military to order the exclusion of anyone from any place. The actual thing a person could be arrested for was passed unanimously by Congress to support the EO and enforced by courts. Even during a real national emergency, nobody was disappearing Japanese people without due process. Korematsu was arrested and tried and convicted and their conviction was upheld by courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. At the time FDR, Congress, the Court, and everybody else thought they were doing due process. There's a lot of daylight between that and what Trump is doing.

> that makes it even MORE appalling, as all three branches were complicit in an egregious breach of the constitution

Congress and SCOTUS are playing calvinball with the Constitution (and civil rights) too.

> Supposedly that requires proceedings to go through an immigration court and be approved by a judge, and as far as anyone knows that hasn't happened yet.

The administration is pretending to goof up following court orders or simply ignoring them, and is lying in court, repeatedly - claiming they "don't know" who is in charge at DOGE.

ICE was arresting people who turned out to be citizens, shuttling them across the country so make it harder for their lawyers to contact them.

Why are you expecting the administration to follow procedures for deporting someone here with a green card?