"he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Mahdawi, who had held a green card for 10 years, was a leader of protests at Columbia last year where students called for the school to divest from companies that benefit from Israel’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territories."

Common sense would say that he should not attract undue attention if he isn’t a citizen yet. Come into the USA, get an education, become a citizen. Not come then start protests which disrupt other students who are trying to get an education.

Yeah, not super healthy to harbor these kind of hopes. Good people leave too soon, and the people you dislike, seem to linger in for too long, defying your death wishes.

Their biggest problem was DEI and immigration. Now its gonna be their second biggest problem. 🙂

Reminds me of east and west germany, even still today, one side is poorer than the other, which fostered new radicalism.

And also where i live, Quebec, poorer rural regions control the elections.

As i read this, i am remembered of Newsom meeting Trump, after he refused to help with Californian wildfires.

The optimist angle would be that Trump is secretely a Democrat agent, and that by crashing the stock market he just thinks it’s over-valued and wants to return to 2018~ levels.