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resolution relating to strongly objecting to the manner and circumstances under which U.S. immigration authorities arrested and detained Mohsen Mahdawi and strongly advocating that he be afforded due process under the law and released immediately from detention. Whereas, Mohsen Mahdawi is a resident of White River Junction and has been a U.S. permanent resident (green card holder) for the past decade, and Whereas, on Monday, April 14, 2025, in the belief that he was to participate in his final interview for U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. immigration office in Colchester, and Whereas, instead of commencing the interview, armed immigration authorities in plain clothes with faces covered arrested Mohsen Mahdawi and refused to provide any information regarding where he was being taken or what would happen to him, and Whereas, in a joint statement that U.S. Senators Sanders and Welch and U.S. Representative Balint released, they described this action as “immoral, inhumane, and illegal,” and Whereas, Vermont’s three federal legislators also demanded that Mohsen Mahdawi be afforded “due process under the law and immediately released from detention,” now therefore be it

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Becca White (D)*,  Phil Baruth (D),  Scott Beck (R),  Seth Bongartz (D),  Patrick Brennan (R),  Randy Brock (R),  Thomas Chittenden (D),  Alison Clarkson (D),  Brian Collamore (R),  Ann Cummings (D),  Martine Gulick (D),  Ruth Hardy (D),  Wendy Harrison (D),  Nader Hashim (D),  Ginny Lyons (D),  Joseph Major (D),  Christopher Mattos (R),  Andrew Perchlik (D),  Robert Plunkett (D),  Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D),  Tanya Vyhovsky (D),  Anne Watson (D),  Richard Westman (R), 

As adopted by Senate (on 04/30/2025)

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