
‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails | US immigration newsthirst.
Congressional lawmakers denounced the treatment of Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, the students being detained by US immigration authorities for their pro-Palestinian activism, as a “national disgrace” during a visit to the two facilities in Louisiana where each are being held. “We stand firm with them in support of free speech,” the Louisiana congressman Troy…