EXC - The wife of the Judge who just blocked President Trump's ICE raids appears to be the former Vice President of National Immigration Forum, a pro-open borders advocacy group.She was also a Biden administration appointee. 1/2

Meet the far-left Jacinta Ma.

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The National Immigration Forum advocates for MASS AMNESTY and staunchly opposes border enforcement policies.

George Soros's Open Society Foundation is also reportedly the group's largest donor.

==Ma herself is an avid Democrat, having donated 24 times to Democrat candidates, including to President Trump's opponents.

In addition to working for Obama, Ma wasBiden's Director of the Office of Communications and Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionwhere she worked on "anti-racism."

Ma is also on record strategizing how to overhaul President Trump's border policies in this @USAToday article.

She said that Biden could "immediately raise the refugee cap through an executive order."

She also attacked Trump for removing illegal aliens from the census.

During Trump's second term, the group is actively lobbying against mass deportations, putting out a host of statement condemning DHS actions to revoke Temporary Protected Status and conduct ICE raids.

The National Immigration Forum is so radically anti-Trump it participated in auctioning a life-sized nude statue mocking Trump in 2016.

It profited six figures from the stunt.

They're radically opposed to building a wall, too.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1894104271215370598.html

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EXC - The wife of the Judge who just blocked President Trump's ICE raids appears to be the former Vice President of National Immigration Forum, a pro-open borders advocacy group.She was also a Biden administration appointee.

Meet the far-left Jacinta Ma.

🧵🧵🧵

The National Immigration Forum advocates for MASS AMNESTY and staunchly opposes border enforcement policies.

George Soros's Open Society Foundation is also reportedly the group's largest donor.

==Ma herself is an avid Democrat, having donated 24 times to Democrat candidates, including to President Trump's opponents.

In addition to working for Obama, Ma wasBiden's Director of the Office of Communications and Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionwhere she worked on "anti-racism."

Ma is also on record strategizing how to overhaul President Trump's border policies in this @USAToday article.

She said that Biden could "immediately raise the refugee cap through an executive order."

She also attacked Trump for removing illegal aliens from the census.

During Trump's second term, the group is actively lobbying against mass deportations, putting out a host of statement condemning DHS actions to revoke Temporary Protected Status and conduct ICE raids.

The National Immigration Forum is so radically anti-Trump it participated in auctioning a life-sized nude statue mocking Trump in 2016. It profited six figures from the stunt.

They're radically opposed to building a wall, too.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1894104271215370598.html

Last posting of 3 pics

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Two Barnard students expelled for History of Modern Israel class disruption, CUAD says By Daksha Pillai and Rebecca Massel • February 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM 1/2

“Expulsion is always an extraordinary measure, but so too is our commitment to respect, inclusion, and the integrity of the academic experience,” Barnard President Laura Rosenbury wrote in a statement to Spectator, though she did not confirm the claim.

In an Instagram post on Sunday, Columbia University Apartheid Divest wrote, “We disrupted a zionist class, and you should too”

Two Barnard students have been expelled for their participation in disrupting the first session of the History of Modern Israel course, Columbia University Apartheid Divest wrote in a Sunday post on X.

On Jan. 21, the first day of classes for the spring 2025 semester, several individuals wearing keffiyehs disrupted the first session of the class History of Modern Israel taught by lecturer in history Avi Shilon at Columbia.

Barnard President Laura Rosenbury wrote in a statement to Spectator through a Barnard spokesperson that under federal law, the college cannot “comment on the academic and disciplinary records of students.”

“That said, as a matter of principle and policy, Barnard will always take decisive action to protect our community as a place where learning thrives, individuals feel safe, and higher education is celebrated,” Rosenbury wrote. “This means upholding the highest standards and acting when those standards are threatened.”

Rosenbury’s statement was first published by Jewish Insider.

In April 2024, Barnard suspended and evicted at least 55 students for their alleged participation in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” Following the suspensions, Barnard offered an “Alternative Resolution” process which lifted the suspensions in exchange for waiving rights to participate in the conduct process.

According to the Barnard Student Code of Conduct, accused students attend a conduct meeting with the Conduct Administrator after they receive notice of charges. After the Conduct Administrator reaches a decision, the student has five days to appeal their decision to the dean of the college, Leslie Grinage.

“When rules are broken, when there is no remorse, no reflection, and no willingness to change, we must act,” Rosenbury wrote in her statement. “Expulsion is always an extraordinary measure, but so too is our commitment to respect, inclusion, and the integrity of the academic experience.”

Following the occupation of Hamilton Hall by pro-Palestinian protesters, the University threatened expulsion for students involved. The University Judicial Board held hearings over winter break for students involved in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” and planned to hold hearings for the Hamilton Hall protesters in January. Both Barnard and the University generally refrain from publicizing disciplinary information.

“At Barnard, we always fiercely defend our values,” Rosenbury wrote in the statement to Spectator on Sunday. “At Barnard, we always reject harassment and discrimination in all forms. And at Barnard, we always do what is right, not what is easy.”

Brian Cohen, executive director of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, commended Rosenbury’s response in a Sunday post on X. “Strong action and words from @BarnardCollege President Laura Rosenbury,” he wrote. “These individuals don’t belong on campus - and now they won’t be.”

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/02/23/two-barnard-students-expelled-for-history-of-modern-israel-class-disruption-cuad-says/

link to video on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGbAlcjpCyF/?img_index=1

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Two days after the disruption, Columbia identified and suspended an affiliate for participation in the disruption, pending an investigation and disciplinary process, according to a University statement published Jan. 23.

Four days later, on Jan. 27, Columbia identified two additional individuals from an “affiliated institution” as participants in the class disruption and barred the individuals from entering Columbia’s campus. The University referred them to their “home institution for further investigation and discipline,” the Jan. 27 statement reads.

During the January disruption,protesters handed out flyers that depicted a boot stomping on the Star of David with the words “Crush Zionism” and another depicting an individual in a keffiyeh holding a burning Israeli flag with the words “Burn Zionism to the ground,” according to a video posted by the Columbia Jewish and Israeli Students account on X.

CUAD posted a video taken by protesters during the class disruption in a Sunday Instagram post. The caption of the post described the History of Modern Israel class as “training future foot soldiers and managers of genocide.”

“We disrupted a zionist class, and you should too,” the caption of the post read.

In the video, one protester can be seen reading from a paper and saying, “You all plan to spend the semester sitting here and intellectualizing the apartheid regime that has been surviving off the blood of Palestinians for a century.”

In an interview with Spectator following the incident, Shilon said he offered the protesters seats in the classroom but that they declined and continued to disrupt the class.

Two days after the disruption, Rosenbury wrote in an email to the Barnard community that the administration “cannot, and will not, tolerate any disruptions in academic spaces.”

“When uninvited visitors enter classrooms with the intention of interfering with learning—let alone when they target specific courses, communities, or individuals—they betray the very principles of intellectual exchange that underpin our community,” Rosenbury wrote.

In a statement hours after the incident, interim University President Katrina Armstrong condemned the disruption and pledged to further investigate the incident.

Deputy News Editor Rebecca Massel can be contacted at rebecca.massel@columbiaspectator.com. Follow her on X @rebeccamassel.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/02/23/two-barnard-students-expelled-for-history-of-modern-israel-class-disruption-cuad-says/

link to video on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGbAlcjpCyF/?img_index=1

How does this guy get a job everywhere he goes?

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Pompeo, who also served as CIA director, was President Donald Trump’s second secretary of state during his first term.Pompeo noted that he looks forward to “fair, reasoned and fact-based discourse.”

BY JOSEPH ZULOAGA • FEBRUARY 24, 2025 AT 11:38 AM

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Pompeo will teach a course on diplomacy, decision-making, and organizational leadership,and how to kill whistleblowers, according to the Journal. A SIPA spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Pompeo is the latest politician with ties to the White House to join SIPA’s faculty. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jacob Lew returned to SIPA in January and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined in February 2023. Clinton, who is on the leadership team for IGP, directed the creation of the institute, which was formally approved by the University Senate in May 2023.

“The Academy cannot be an ivory tower,” SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, GS ’03, wrote in a statement to the Journal about the hiring. “We should engage with the world because we learn a lot from engaging with practitioners with differing positions and ideologies who also ultimately can learn from us.”

Pompeo served as President Donald Trump’s second secretary of state from 2018 to 2021 during his first administration. He was also director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2018. Pompeo began to distance himself from Trump following the president’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Trump revoked Pompeo’s security protections last month, a move regarded by some as an attack. Pompeo has previously faced threats from Iran due to his work under the first Trump administration.

Yarhi-Milo told the Journal that Pompeo’s hiring reflects SIPA’s desire to engage in debates across ideological lines and noted that SIPA had been planning Pompeo’s fellowship for several months. She stated that it was not in response to any increased political pressures by the new Trump administration.

Pompeo has commended Trump’s recent executive actions to curtail diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at universities and colleges, writing in a post on X on Feb. 18 that DEI programs are “racist” and “have done enormous damage to kids and teachers.”

Since Trump’s inauguration, Columbia has altered statements on DEI on several University web pages, including the Athletics web page, which saw the removal of its transgender inclusion policy. Pompeo told the Journal that he looks forward to having “fair, reasoned and fact-based discourse” and suspects that Columbia’s outreach was “intentional in the sense that they were seeking to bring onto campus…someone with a view that is very different than most of the faculty on their staff.”

During the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” last spring, Pompeo criticized the protests in a statement on X on April 22, 2024. “What’s happening at Columbia isn’t a protest: it’s a violent, pro-Hamas mob threatening and attacking Jewish students,” he wrote. “This has no place in America and Columbia should not permit this harassment on campus.”

Pompeo also told the Journal that he is focused on teaching and the students, and is “uninterested in the name of the institution on their diploma, and deeply interested in what it is they know.” Pompeo noted that “the United States’ greatest risk is that we refuse to teach the next generation about the greatness of our nation.”

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/02/24/former-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-to-join-sipa-faculty/

OPINIONOpen Letter from Israeli Columbia students, postdocs, and alumni against deportations

• FEBRUARY 17, 2025 AT 1:58 AM

• In these dark times, when both peoples in Israel and Gaza are suffering from trauma and pain, we—Columbia students, postdocs, and alumni from Israel—vehemently object to President Donald Trump’s January 29 executive order, “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism.”

• Although this directive claims to defend us—Jewish and Israeli students—we unequivocally declare that this act does not protect us. While it is crucial to combat antisemitism, the Trump administration’s executive order attempts to silence political criticism of Israel’s actions by dangerously conflating all forms of criticism of Israel with antisemitism. We reject the order’s immoral threat of deportation of our fellow Columbia students and recognize that this action would instead sever vital relationships that Israeli and Palestinian students are nurturing at a pivotal moment in history.

• In fact, we believe that protesting unjust policies is one of the most fundamental and important tools at our disposal to shape our political reality. As Israeli citizens with a range of political opinions and affiliations, we have participated in protests against Israeli policies, including the military occupation of Palestinian territories and the judicial overhaul. Since October 7, 2023, in particular, we have called for the release of the hostages and demanded an end to the war. As such, we value free speech because critical opinions are necessary to oppose injustice and resist oppressive regimes. First Amendment values like the freedom of expression, assembly, and petition must thus extend to all students without discrimination or selective enforcement.

• To be clear, we acknowledge that antisemitic incidents did take place at some pro-Palestinian protests on campus and that antisemitism in the United States is on the rise. However, the Trump administration’s executive order distorts this issue by lumping together students who engaged in peaceful pro-Palestinian activism with those who genuinely support terror groups. At the same time, Trump’s directive ignores the real and growing threats posed by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in the United States, which continue to incite violence and hatred towards Jewish people.

• As it stands, this executive order only exacerbates existing tensions by weaponizing the accusation of antisemitism rather than constructively addressing it. As Israelis, we feel compelled to reject the belief that criticism of the Israeli government or its policies is inherently antisemitic, especially in light of the fact that we ourselves frequently do so. Therefore, weaponizing accusations of antisemitism to silence criticism of Israel not only undermines free speech but also fails to protect Jewish people.

• Moreover, the consequences of the executive order’s stipulations, which call for the removal of “alien students,” are cruel and unusual. Interrupting a student’s studies and forcing them to return to a country or territory where activism could be seen as a threat, or which are active war zones, is a terrifying consequence that we are morally obligated to publicly oppose. Even more egregiously, the executive order entrenches an environment of fear and distrust in our campus communities. By encouraging institutions to “monitor and report activities by alien students and staff,” the executive order promotes a culture of surveillance where citizens are incentivized to inform U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through tip lines about the behavior of others. We reject any legal action based on deliberately vague definitions of antisemitism.

•We must thus call upon Columbia to robustly protect its students from deportation, publicly denounce the Trump administration’s repressive measure, and swiftly provide legal support to those threatened by it. At the same time, we urge the University to invest in transformative peace-building initiatives—including creating safe spaces where Israelis and Palestinians can meet, learn about each other’s history, and start a reconciliation process. This move would not only counter the polarization fueled by this executive order, but also transform Columbia into a central hub to educate the next generation of leaders to champion global peace.

• The fragile ceasefire and hostage agreement underscores the urgency of the current moment. Now is the time for Columbia to lead by example and create meaningful spaces where Palestinians and Israelis can engage with each other in a climate of empathy. Realizing that reconciliation is a necessary step toward a lasting peace for both our peoples, the University must now take decisive action and protect its students from undue harm.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/02/17/open-letter-from-israeli-columbia-students-postdocs-and-alumni-against-deportations/

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EVERYONE HAS AN OPINION UNTIL THEY OR THEIR CHILDREN ARE ATTACKED, OR KILLED BY TERRORISTS

LIBERALS ONLY LEARN WHEN IT IS TOO LATE, OR THEY NEVER LEARN.