And until 2005, if you really couldn’t pay off that debt, you could declare bankruptcy and get rid of it; if you lived within your means after that for 11 years, all trace of the bankruptcy would be gone from your credit record. What changed? In 2005 a law was passed making it drastically harder to discharge debt in bankruptcy; the focus was on credit card debt — because punishing the poor to help the banks is always sure of support from Congress — but student loan debt was just incidentally on the list of stuff which suddenly became permanent.
The guy who really strained every nerve to get the bill through Congress, despite Democratic opposition? Joe Biden. His stupidity and hatred of the public did not begin with the Gaza genocide.
(Quds) During his stand-up set at the Comedy Fundraiser for Palestine in Luxembourg, comedian Sundeep Bhardwaj hilariously pokes fun at the absurdity of Zionist logic, warning that if you raise the Palestinian flag on your house, they might suddenly claim your house was “promised to them.”
Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University student who was detained by US immigration authorities last month, says she has had multiple asthma attacks since she was arrested and detained and has had difficulty getting medical attention.
Öztürk, 30, was detained by masked, plainclothes officers as she walked in a Boston-area suburb on 25 March. A judge ordered that the Turkish national and doctoral student who was in the US on an F-1 student visa cannot be deported without a court order. But she remains detained at the South Louisiana Ice processing center in Basile.
On Thursday, Öztürk’s attorneys asked the federal court in Vermont to release her – or to move her from Louisiana to Vermont – while her case is heard.
In a declaration filed by her lawyers, she said that while at the Louisiana facility, she faced delays getting care for an asthma attack and was initially refused access to fresh air. When she was eventually taken to the medical center, she says a nurse told her to take off her hijab. When Öztürk refused, she said, the nurse ripped off her hijab without permission.
“After a few minutes I put my hijab back on. But they did nothing to treat my asthma and gave me a few ibuprofen,” she said. In her declaration, Öztürk said that her holding cell is crowded beyond capacity and the unsanitary, damp conditions trigger her asthma.
“The conditions in the facility are very unsanitary, unsafe, and inhumane,” she said. “There is a mouse in our cell. The boxes they provide for our clothing are very dirty and they don’t give us adequate hygiene supplies.”
Öztürk is not the first to raise concerns about the conditions in the South Louisiana Ice processing center. In an August 2024 report by immigration advocates based on facility visits and interviews with detainees, dozens of women held at the center reported being denied medical care and offered rotten food.
Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who is being wrongfully detained in an ICE concentration camp in Louisiana, is suffering repeated asthma attacks and had her hijab removed.
