"...Columbia University has been in the spotlight for bending over backwards to do the bidding of Trump..."
This might be 100% correct but the writer presumes the reader know what the writer knows regarding the spotlight and precisely what the bending over backwards looks like.
"...a notorious ICE detention facility in Louisiana..." What precisely makes this facility notorious versus plain?
"...Columbia University has been in the spotlight for bending over backwards to do the bidding of Trump..."
This might be 100% correct but the writer presumes the reader know what the writer knows regarding the spotlight and precisely what the bending over backwards looks like.
"...a notorious ICE detention facility in Louisiana..." What precisely makes this facility notorious versus plain?
Following that link, I read claims, but the claimants provide nothing verifiable to support their statements. That's after I scroll past the ALCU solicitation for donations section.
The active link on "new report" goes to a site that is an advertisement for the product Tableau, which happens to show a report entitled RFK Detention Dashboard (no way to see the source of these numbers).
Conditions may be horrible, and what the quoted employees from Kennedy Human Rights, Louisiana ACLU, National Immigration Project, ISLA, and Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition might be 100% correct. However, without the ability to confirm them, it becomes a "trust me on this one".
Maybe. However, what is written is either factual or an opinion. Clues in the writing lead in the opinion direction and opinions are like the one body part possessed by all.
"...Columbia University has been in the spotlight for bending over backwards to do the bidding of Trump..."
This might be 100% correct but the writer presumes the reader know what the writer knows regarding the spotlight and precisely what the bending over backwards looks like.
"...a notorious ICE detention facility in Louisiana..." What precisely makes this facility notorious versus plain?
Louisiana's horrible ICE detention sites documented here: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/new-report-exposes-rampant-abuse-in-louisiana-ice-detention-facilities
Following that link, I read claims, but the claimants provide nothing verifiable to support their statements. That's after I scroll past the ALCU solicitation for donations section.
The active link on "new report" goes to a site that is an advertisement for the product Tableau, which happens to show a report entitled RFK Detention Dashboard (no way to see the source of these numbers).
Conditions may be horrible, and what the quoted employees from Kennedy Human Rights, Louisiana ACLU, National Immigration Project, ISLA, and Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition might be 100% correct. However, without the ability to confirm them, it becomes a "trust me on this one".
The issue might be less about notoriety, more about making access to legal assistance more difficult?
"By moving the campus activist to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited [Mahmoud Khalil's] legal access, his attorneys say."
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana/
Maybe. However, what is written is either factual or an opinion. Clues in the writing lead in the opinion direction and opinions are like the one body part possessed by all.