Link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-seizes-columbia-university-student-ellie-aghayeva-in-their-dorm/

A student at Columbia University was detained Thursday morning by federal immigration officers.

Columbia University President Claire Shipman said that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’” The school’s campus has been closed to outsiders since 2024.

The president did not name the student, but it has been confirmed to be Ellie Aghayeva, an undergraduate neuroscience student who was expected to graduate this year. She was taken from her dorm room at the school’s New York City campus at 6:30 am.

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Does it count as impersonating a law enforcement officer, if you're a different kind of law enforcement officer? I would think so. But cops are legally allowed to lie. So maybe not?

tHe WoRsT oF tHe WoRsT

Everyone under 30 needs a side hustle to make ends meet, especially in a school as godawful expensive as Columbia. Neuroscience by day, OnlyFans by night, because otherwise you're living out of your mom's car in a Staten Island trailer park.

Past that...

Columbia University President Claire Shipman said that “federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a ‘missing person.’”

“It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access,” Shipman’s statement continued.

Clearly and obviously a lie. But when you're at a pro-genocide university, I guess this is table stakes.

Assuming dorm counts as residence for 4th amendment purposes like an apartment? If there's no judicial warrant for it they had no justification for entering.

When your side hustle is making money for meta, my level of give a fuck goes way down.

Of course I think this is awful. No excuse for what ice did, but damn.

Even influencers deserve due process

Why would ICE look for missing people in a dormitory? That's NYPD's job if it's anyone's.

https://archive.li/3gzQ1

Ok, EVERYONE deserves due process, hell even fucking Trump deserves due process. For fucks sake.

When your side hustle is making money for meta

Obviously, anyone who isn't making their social media accounts exclusively Mastadon should be dragged out into the street and shot.

Holy mental gymnastics.

yes. due process does not work unless everyone gets it. Its whole purpose is to prevent law enforcement from being able to do whatever they want with whoever they want.

Bad site, that's still archive dot today.

Exactly HOW is this mental gymnastics? This is the reality.

When your side hustle is making money for meta, my level of give a fuck goes way down.

Jfc buddy. Get a grip already.

If I had a dollar for every time a neuroscience undergraduate student took my job, sold me drugs, and raped me I'd have at least five bucks

I will put it this way. If I found out this woman had been a nazi, and a pedophile, and a canabal, and a warewolf, and a vampire, and secretly donald trump in drag, I would STILL insist on being given the same rights to due process and a fair trial as everyone else.

Here, it's just grabbing her from her dorm, and she gets no say, no process.

The process needs to work if we're to trust it.

Very likely. The statute doesn't seem to have an exception for one kind of cop lying about being a completely different kind of cop.

They wouldn't, but the article says

Columbia University officials and local lawmakers say ICE posed as NYPD cops and used the excuse of a phony missing child to gain access to the building

If true, that is likely a crime.

Bullshit. I am commenting directly on this:

Meta has earned over $390,000 on hundreds of ads pushing anti-immigrant “invasion” rhetoric in just over three months (2024)

Meta blocks links in all their products for anti ICE apps, articles and discussions

DHS has spent more than $1 million on ‘self-deportation’ ads in the last 90 days targeted to people interested in ‘Latin music,’ ‘Spanish as a second language’ and ‘Mexican cuisine on Facebook and Instagram

ICE has spent $500,000 on recruitment ads on Facebook and Instagram

Her participation drives revenue, ads, and people to this platform. She is part of the problem.

Again: I think what ice did, and is doing, is awful. And I am not being completely serious, I was joking because I hate "influencers" to some degree. But I hate meta more for what they are doing. It all just makes me shake my head, this is not a secret, she had to have known.

I was joking, yes everyone should get due process. But damn, why did she have to work for the very thing caused this?

I am not being completely serious, I was joking

MAGA hates the educated.

Who is going to stop them? ICE is determined to prove they are above all laws.

Found the meta supporter.

Way to not contribute. And people wonder why we are in this mess.

But why am I even writing this? Chances are you are illiterate, hence the resort to little pictures?

The whole situation is a crime. But impersonating a police officer should at least get the NYPD to do something. Don't want ICE besmirching their good name do we?

Y'all'queda says women should not go to school.

It isn’t mental gymnastics, and is closer to the opposite. Your comment is nuancephobic. You’re equating someone who is a social media influencer about studying with someone who is literally pushing party propaganda.

It’s not a broad brush it’s a push broom.

Yes influencers are bad.

Yes big tech companies are evil, and an existential threat to our society and humanity

Yes there are influencers that use their platforms to promote the status quo

You seem to be putting that all on her, or at least describing no daylight between her and fucking Jeff Bezos himself.

Read it again through those eyes. You probably don’t actually think that way but that’s what I read and I think that’s what folks are reacting to.

So did Pol Pot.

Bro stop digging.

I am for due process. I am annoyed at influencers. I have nothing personal against her.

But dammit, how long do we continue to just give a pass for people driving views and money to the very thing that is part of the problem? Or at least, like I was doing here: simply demonstrating the bizarre relationship people have with the organization that is advocating to eat their face?

If it was food, or housing, or transportation and there was no other alternative that would be one thing.

Do people really not understand that by participating on meta platforms, you are literally handing them money and a captive audience?

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

I am against ICE doing these things and the companies spreading propaganda to normalize it. But apparently stopping from using meta products is just a bridge too far. Sad.

Do people really not understand that by participating on meta platforms, you are literally handing them money and a captive audience?

If you thought honestly about the stultifyingly obvious answer to this question, you could acknowledge the actual challenge ahead of us.

Not everyone is where you are. People like us who have left the social media and big tech ecosystem are crazy rare right now, and we definitely need way more people to understand and join us in negating the power we've given them over ourselves.

Your initial comment implied she basically had it coming because she was a mouthpiece for big tech.

We literally cannot afford to be this sanctimonious. We do not have the numbers.

Whats wrong with archive.today?

Tbh I would also expect Columbia to lie about this for them. There's a pretty good chance they knew it was ICE and they decided to go with plausible deniability

This is why we need to strike when they are in the early stages. Give someone like this enough time and they will start rotting our brains espousing pro-vaccine BS.

I really wasn't. I didnt think this audience would take it that seriously. When pressed I said why it is ironic, maybe people dont get that.

I even said it was a joke. But I gotta admit, the comments here are beginning to make me care a lot less.

Memes and gifs! Never address the problem, you guys are great. You should go ahead and share that on your Instagram, I am sure it will get likes.

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You might be confusing me with someone else.

I don't know. Still conflicted. Not really of course, but it makes it very annoying.

This must be where you think you said it was a joke. And

So she earned it I guess?

this must be where you think you weren’t implying she had it coming.

But maybe I’m confused. I thought you were here in good faith and trying to understand the reaction you were getting and that’s the only reason I commented. I’m happy to get back to smiling at pictures of cats. Ta.

I guess?

Typically used as unsure, or not really, at the end of a sentence. At least in English.

Cat pictures sound good.

Are you usually reading about violating peoples rights and then choose to basically tell someone else to kill themselves when they point out the irony of supporting the very propaganda machine that helps facilitate it?

They repeat the line about due process a lot, but not the fact she was there legally, which has to be inferred by the fact she came home after release.

Does the article come off as jarring, or is it just me?