Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents

ty6853 · 2025-04-10T20:55:10 1744318510

Guy folded like a tent in 90 minutes and gave up his contacts. Attorneys talk a big game about remaining silent, but in the end can't even stand up to a 90 minute intimidation session.

I've been through the wringer including shackled, strip searched, locked up with crazy Mexicans, cbp tell me lies until their face turns blue about revoking passports or not being let through into your own country. Don't be like this guy, they will usually give up after locking you up for a day or so.

SketchySeaBeast · 2025-04-10T21:34:11 1744320851

I think you're blaming exactly the wrong person here.

pmags · 2025-04-10T20:56:14 1744318574

To be clear -- the attorney is a US Citizen who was returning from a trip outside of the US.

Border agents pressured Makled to hand over his cell phone. He refused. After more than 90 minutes of back-and-forth, he eventually showed agents his contacts list. He was eventually released. Makled says he was never given a reason for his detainment.

However, one of his current clients is a student who has been charged in connection to a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Michigan.

p_ing · 2025-04-10T20:41:13 1744317673

Link to article: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357455/attorney-detain...

ChrisArchitect · 2025-04-10T21:33:50 1744320830

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647939

bbor · 2025-04-10T20:56:06 1744318566

This will be deleted, of course — discussing the active fascist takeover of history’s most powerful democracy doesn’t Fit The Vibe for HN :(

johnnyanmac · 2025-04-10T21:27:50 1744320470

Very few things that aren't outright blacklisted get deleted. It is likely to be flagged, though.

josefresco · 2025-04-10T21:02:06 1744318926

You mean you don't want to hear all about my Artisanal Python startup while democracy dies?

alabastervlog · 2025-04-10T21:15:53 1744319753

It's surreal to see the usual rewrite-in-Rust articles and such still dominating the main page during an ongoing and fairly open effort to end liberal democracy in the US and upend the entire world trade & security order.

I get that it's supposedly a tech forum (and that actually it's an advertising & marketing platform) but still, gives a fella the creeps. Especially when major tech figures (Thiel, Musk, everyone in charge of a site exhibiting the usual "engagement algorithm quickly becomes indistinguishable from an intentional right-wing radicalization pipeline and conspiratorial-thinking primer" behavior) are largely responsible for where we're at and are so involved in it, and the rest of the industry's "disruptive" "genius" "mavericks" are cowering like frightened children.

johnnyanmac · 2025-04-10T21:29:04 1744320544

People still have their circuses. Until it hits them personally, many will try to ignore what goes on outside the tent.

DrillShopper · 2025-04-10T21:33:46 1744320826

The vast majority of people on this site approve of what the president is doing or are apathetic to it since they think it will never affect them.

One only need look at how fast the flagging brigade shows up when any story critical of the government or Elon Musk is posted.

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