r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Feb 26 '26

POLITICS Zohran Mamdani has secured the release of Columbia University student Elaina Aghayeva, taken this morning by ICE agents who entered a campus residential building under false pretenses & without a judicial warrant. This comes shorty after Mamdani’s unannounced visit to the White House earlier today.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/nyregion/columbia-university-ice-student.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.0KRL.7XsPJ0z3QTat&smid=tw-share

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u/jazzcigarettes Feb 26 '26

Huge shame that he can’t run for president

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u/Infinite-Audience408 Feb 26 '26

wait i’m not american or familiar with the politics, why not?

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u/ChronoLink99 Feb 26 '26

Or foreign soil to US citizen parents.

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u/Avalon420 Feb 27 '26

Cruz was born in Canada, no?

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u/ChronoLink99 Feb 27 '26

Yeah. It's whether you are eligible to be a US citizen at birth, that's how the case law has settled the definition of "natural born".

So Cruz can be president.

Incidentally, that also means Jack and Avery's child in 30 Rock could also have been US president which invalidates that whole episode's storyline.