that kind of kept it going and kept his spirits alive. Those who contributed on launch good, and the people involved with launch good, it's so, so many, you know, I get in with, I don't wanna thank so many people by not mentioning who they are, but God, a lot of those who you are, and what you did, and how you contributed, and how you supported justice, and how you supported, you know, this work against oppression, and against unfairness, and against our constitution, and bill of rights, and the freedom of speech, and so, I just wanted to say it, on behalf of the ISM, we are very proud of you, we appreciate everything that everybody did, no matter how large or big, we appreciate that, we thank you, and we ask God to bless each and every one of you. APPLAUSE There's just so much action to the grandpa, and they're just not letting him go much out of life. We are going to have, now, brother Solasi, a bit about what his thoughts are going to be. Thank you very much, brother, and thank you, and welcome everyone, to ISM, and I am so happy, and honored that after ISM is thriving, I would not allow to pray that to my freedom, which is gathering prayer with all of us, I need to pray with by myself, an individual, almost 9% of the time, in saying, that, dear, finally, I am deaf, and I am here with my grandchildren, with my family, with my dear community, with people of freedom, people of justice, people of faith, who stood with my cause and my case. Thank you very much, everyone. This means the word to me. I have a new life, and this life came from how comes to Canada, came from your support, and from your stand with justice, and stand with my case, and I really appreciate it, thank you very much. My dear brother, my sisters, me, and everyone, my dear society, I am back to serve the community, Monday we have many things to continue building bridges more and more with all of faith, to building projects more and more for the future of our children. We are built for goodness, we are against wrong to it, we are against anything unjust, but anything with values, anything with justice, anything with support coming, support education, support our kids and the future of our kids, we will be there, and we will do that extra mile to make sure, to deliver for the rest of the future to everyone. This is who we are. I see the same thing when I was in jail, when I addressed a community few times through the phone, inside my room, inside my home room, I used to say, cause it's too cold by the way, and we'll continue doing the same, whatever we are, to do the mission, to support the community as a priority, and to deliver goodness if we were to show them that. I really was hoping to see my mom before she traveled to Palestine. So, the last few days in jail, I wasn't system to do not even think it was going by a term in there. And by the way, I didn't want to thank that team, attorneys who worked for my case, and especially the local one, which is brother Wunjid Ahmad, the CEO of the community leader. APPLAUSE And brother Ashman Akbar, APPLAUSE worked for him. Because in this community, who you find in downtown Milwaukee, in court, fighting for any just cause for a tree, by the way, you're fighting in Chicago, you're fighting anywhere, you're standing in justice. And by the way, 90% of my name is Smith, when they stand with people to be for free, but then it just goes. They know how to differentiate between business and to be called myself. And again, there's many attorneys who stood with me at the end of all, for what they did. And I thank the judge, for his purpose, and the way he chose, to be a judge and honestly, he gave me hope for the system, that, thank God, we had to celebrate even, who can give, drive judgment for better future. Because imagine myself. Finally, I met my mom, last night before she went back home. If the judge said something else, how I lost her opportunity, and she's 85 years old, and by the way, she came about 10 minutes before I went to jail. She spent five days in the hospital, to put some heart problems. And I spent those five days by the way with her, inside the hospital. A lot of people know her thing to be with her. During all my days, I spent the nights with her in the same room, standing with my mom, because she wishes my mom and dad, my dad, best away, when I was four years old. So she raised me as mom and dad. And I told her to stand with her, not to be away from her now when she needs me. A lot of time after that, I came giving this opportunity, to see her at eight o'clock. And at the same time, to see my beautiful dad, I have mine, your husband, I'm breaking news, there's no more thing coming the way. So, they all have racism. And I have my own words. So she came all the way from Memphis with her husband, with her kids. You're prepared to see the new twins, and not some of you prepared to be with me, and by the way, her fourth baby when I was in jail, now it's like 65, or 70 days, and I was in jail when she had the birth of the baby. And it was very tough from here to be honest with you, very tough, to have her baby with her kids, while she knows that they're there, going through what I was doing. And to have also my sixth son, they weren't professionals, had to learn my own kids' English from school. And they weren't professional, I finished college, it's all my six kids, they finished college, they weren't English, and they are American citizen, they are professional, they are the running of this community, they're raising this community, like other kids here, this community, we grown here, and we want to continue to build here. So, I won't be shocked at that. The future will be better, because we need a better future for all of us in Chicago. And again, thank you very much. Thank you very much for coming. I really appreciate why you came here to Houston with me, people of pain, what man should I promise any names, honestly, or any group. Tilt a group, and I go back with me more than 400 others, arrived to my room, and the guards there used to be shocked. And once, well done, once, one time, the guard came to me, a female George told me, so I can come and carry the nail, I can't carry it, what is this? And I have to walk outside to go carry my own nail, because it was too heavy, it's too vast in the mail. I have like a face pouring letters from Dallas, I have like 20 to say letters from Michigan, I have like almost 70 letters of whom I'm a medicine community, JBB and other groups who work hard with medicine, they send me films of letters, Milwaukee, the Solan school, you're filming, I mean, if I was serious, hands I'd show that, then if you guys were raised, I'd say, okay, I mean, I said, you let us all out. But it means a lot to someone who will go into and just situation. Again, thank you very much. I owe you for this. I love you, and I promise you, you will be working for separate students as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Back up, there is lots of people looking at me back. It's a great feeling, and we're looking forward to working with you more on the daily basis. I want to call up before we talk to the attorney, I would like to bring up Keney as a steward. This is Slaus Elissa. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You took over from his dad, and my son was a quiet guy. But he is a tremendous asset to the family. He took on a really major task. And he wants to talk a little bit about what he was like for the family, for those that anyone did. So I don't think we're being in play. I mean, when you go back and realize that there was hate now and you have to go find him and being overwhelmed with all those emotions. And let me give you a day as the nightmare continues, making up every single day not knowing how your dad is, what's going on, if he's okay, if many other men also heard about the food poisoning that he was going to and stuff like that. But it was killing us as a family and the news came to us as an earthquake to us and the community. My son insisted on bringing up land today, thinking that his grandfather is so cold from the nights that he spent over there. So, when we heard the news yesterday and we rushed, we rushed. We knew it was a dream come true, but we were worried over daydreaming. So, we rushed to make sure that we got there as fast as we can. And dreaming every day, hugging your father again, seeing him being back with a family, those of you come true. And it came true because of this amazing community, amazing leaders, amazing people that took the action and did what they had to do to make sure that he comes home. And for that we thank all of you guys and those constant community and the cities across the nation. Thank you. He's back home. He's back home with his family. And we took a quiet night last night on his home, sound asleep in his bed, and he's among his family. So, that's a big dream come true to us. And now we can actually call him every day. Whenever we go on, check whenever we go on, seeing whenever we go on. And he has one big family that we should have. What happened? What happened to him? Should it have happened? We did the bike and we'll continue doing the bike. Thank you so much. Thank you, Anthony. We are next going to hear from Sausage's main attorney. For the media, we will have the video available for you afterwards or if anyone wants what she's saying, we will give you the link so that you can actually have the video. We're not going to be able to project it. But this is an attorney, Luna Ruby, from, I think it's Belvak, I don't want to screw it up. Belvak will be an improvement in New York. She's worked on a number of cases nationally, particularly for those individuals involved with encampments and the attempt to target them. She was a rainer. Okay. Sorry. One of the. One of the. One of the things that we're just one second. Can you just get to all the way here? The board tool. Okay. Let's do. Okay. We're going to give that a try. All right. Sorry about that. So again, great attorney, great work and great results. I mean, we were really very, very happy to see the judge's decision. And I'll have a turn in attorney through me talk about some of the case and where we're going from here. Attorney. Can you guys hear good? Yeah. Yes. Great. So, I'm ready to take 12 feet in there. I am so honored to remember a lot of questions. It is a facing team of lawyers dedicated to that injustice with law. It is profoundly moving to see him and hear philosophy in front of you all and in person. It has been such a battle and it's what it's hope is to have held in fact in for a lot. He allowed this to change for 80 days in a late-time jail where he endured horrific conditions of confinement. The law lost 30 pounds while incarcerated and was denied basic and medical treatment. He had to type two diabetic and left his blood glucose check at least daily, or with that extra serious medical complication. At that left point, he suffered severe sudden pain, gave him the bill statement and tossed and disinfected the guard for mental treatment. Instead, he was told to purchase the gun tax off and that medical staff would not be available until the next morning. In addition to his medical issues, he was denied he would only be distracted to stay through it. But as he told the federal judge a few weeks ago, the real problem was that he should not be detained in the first place. His detention was punitive. And with retaliation with advocacy on behalf of his people, the law started a proud Palestinian. And as he told me when he was a detention, nothing will stop him from speaking out about Palestinians who were right. Yesterday, a federal judge agreed, and that the government cannot retaliate against the law through advocacy. However, the law's legal battle continues. And it wasn't too many specific claims in the federal court. That relief and immigration case continues. And he will be challenged and impeached in every one of the government's false allegations dead to America. But the election here today is clear. The government's policy of chill speech of those who advocate for Palestinians who will not proceed. Freedom of speech and association is for constitutional right in the country. And yesterday, a federal judge agreed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. We're going to have, if any of the media have questions for attorney Drew B., we will have you ask those questions right now before we have a few other speakers who will address you. Anyone have a question, and we'll relay it directly to attorney Drew B.? Yes? Are you still worried about the attorney's population? And there I am, when you really hear of any concerns about the law, the law, the law, the law, the law, the law, the law, the law. OK, so the question is, are we worrying about the Heritage Foundation, and the issues related to the freedom of speech, and that they're trying to impact? Well, I think everybody should be terrified by what the government has done in response to the Heritage Foundation and their plans. But as you saw yesterday, we cannot allow these actors to chill to speech of anybody. This is about Palestine, but it could be because that's any other area, whether it's climate justice or human rights. It can affect everybody. It starts here. And that's something that we all should be aware of, and be ready to fight. Yes? For attorney Drew B., respectfully, the government has been very strong in some of its language. Even yesterday, since the terminology and accusations, she just called those allegations false, and she expanded on that, and asked the actions from the historic sword, and how she plans to address them. OK, so he was saying that the government has been very strong with regards to the allegations and the language that they have actually used. And he wants to know how will you go forward in addressing some of these allegations that are being raised by the government? As we inform the judge, and as the judge decided in yesterday's decision, they got a 30-year-old dale allegations that they're breaking up now. They voted false. In fact, they chose to not believe in multiple times during Mr. Farsour 30 years in this country. And so everybody could see the pretext behind that. The real reality here is that a lot of stories targeted for his loss of speech. And that reality, and that's what we can do with the fight. Yes, ma'am. And we're going to bring down a couple of things. I think we could talk a long way to understand the nature of it. OK, so the question is, how many pending cases does Solaf has, pay off, excuse me? I'm sorry, so that's coming down. And what is the nature of those cases? So how many cases does Solaf have that are pending? And what is the nature of those cases? So there are two parallel cases going on right now. There's an immigration court case related to the government's accusation related to the immigration status. Separate are federal cases related to his unlawful detention. So when he was detained, lawyers jumped in action very quickly to try to get a court order, to stop them from moving him, or deported him. God, we've been overseas. So because of quick action of lawyers, we were able to keep him in and in and out. And that was our, that federal case, which we can see able to fight. Yes, ma'am. Do you want to come back to that? Is there any more people on the board? So the question is, as an attorney, what are the next steps as you're moving forward with these cases? We have an incredible immigration team of lawyers who will be pursuing and fighting every criminal allegation against him for the government's claim that on the basis of his removal proceeding, which is the immigration proceeding. We, on a federal case, the federal side, will continue to pursue that case, whether it's through discovery and fact-finding. We'll continue to develop that case, and we believe strongly that the judge will also leave him down and rule definitively that the law's supposed to be constitutional right through violated. Any other questions from the media? Yes, sir. The federal government ever explained or operated in a case you wanted to draw to Indiana? Did the government ever explain why they've drawn him to Indiana? In the benefit of explaining the conduct, all I will say is the practice that we've seen in multiple cases is they try to show people down to favorable jurisdictions for them to impose a hardship treatment possible. And, like I said, it worked for the United States conduct of the legal team that might have just happened, but we were able to stop him and keep him in Indiana, still outweighing his family, but not down to that, where they inevitably were to make it better. If I can just add to that, I do know that when they took him to Chicago, then they were taken to Indiana, like Attorney Drew Lee has mentioned, is that habeas petition without even having all the papers from the government was filed, because the fear was that he would be moved down to Louisiana for some other jurisdiction as Attorney Drew Lee was mentioning, ruling down something that's more favorable to the government. Any other media questions? No, okay. Attorney Drew Lee, thank you so much. I appreciate your time. And I can appreciate all of your work, but very, very thankful for you and your entire team. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, thank you. There's a lot of those popping in the background. I hope you were able to hear that. Okay. All right. Next, as I mentioned, there were many groups that were really involved last Sunday. We had a group, Dr. Jody Milama, who was part of that group. I'm going to have you talk a little bit about that. They actually went down, drove the five-five-and-a-half of the hours to take help to Indiana in the middle of the knowing. And they were able to rally in support of so much. So Sue went in, they've done a lot more, and he's going to just give you a little indication about that. Thank you. Thank you. Just now, I'm sorry. Thank you. Okay. I think we got it. Okay. Don't worry about the record. Good afternoon, sisters and brothers. Today is a really joyous day. In addition to being Juneteenth, today is Salah as our freedom day. Today I celebrate Salah's freedom from unjust captivity by ICE for his strong voice and advocacy for justice and Palestine. I am one of many Jews in Milwaukee who sees Salah as our hero for standing up for all of our constitutional rights for standing up for democracy. As Frederick went the same, last Sunday, I stood with close to 200 people, many folks here in this room today, outside the Clay County Detention Center. It included Jewish people from across three states, alongside an interfaith crowd and Salah's family. Calling for his release, hoping he would hear us. Some traveled many hundreds of miles to be there. Harriet Lickney-Mendell-Dunn, the wife of an Orthodox rabbi, said in our Jews for Salah vigil, using the words from the story of Exodus, let my people go. Salah's story is my people, we are all connected. In the two months since Salah's accord was taken from his beloved community here, thousands of Jewish Americans have risen up to oppose the state terror done in our name against Salah and other Palestinians. It didn't happen like this before Salah was taken. We know that Jewish safety depends on protecting a free, multicultural, multiracial democracy, and that when ICE comes for one, they come for us all. This constant Jews for justice collected more than 400 signatures from just Jewish residents of Wisconsin demanding Salah's freedom. Thank you. Then we are, which is a national progressive Jewish group, put up a Jewish petition to freeze Salah, which currently has an amazing 9,500 plus signatures, which is a record number for that organization on any issue. This week, four rabbis published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun Times demanding to release the Salah saying we will not allow Salah or anyone else to be illegally detained in our name. In my work with Jewish boys from east here in Milwaukee, I have had the great, great honor of working with Salah for more than 12 years. And I know him well as an extraordinary tour of mitzvahs, of great deeds. I love and respect his orientations by justice for everyone, and especially for the most vulnerable. Jews for Salah is an unprecedented convergence of Jews from across the Midwest, from grassroots and political movements sitting out of shoals, lay-life minions, representing a wide range of denominational, political, and ideological commitments. But collectively, we share a common outrage and a firmly-help belief that is our Jewish obligation to fight for Salah's fundamental freedom and to the right to dignity and free speech for him and for Salah, and the entire of Palestinian speech being repressed by those governors. One of our speakers, Rabbi Prince Elder, had actually just returned from Auschwitz, before he joined us in front of a fake honey detention center, the Nazi death camp where his grandmother and aunt had been murdered. It was his first visit there. And he told us that while the fake honey jail was not a death camp, it wasn't stepped towards that. It was a step towards fascism. He told us the Torah says, Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor. And Rabbi Elder said to the Trump administration directly, Do not use anti-Semitism as a cudgel in your maid of war against free speech, against what you decry as liberalism, against the First Amendment, against Muslims, against Palestinians, against peace activists, against brown skinned people. As Jews, we reject the use of our community's legitimate concerns as a smoke stain for policies that separate families and undermine democracy. So to my brothers-in-law, I say welcome. It's so good to see your smiles here and ask them again. Our intimate community stands with you. We celebrate your return today, and we know the work continues tomorrow. It's an honor to be in a struggle with you, as people remain in it with you until all of you ridiculous charges are dropped. We also remember altogether all of us remember that more than 200 other souls still trapped underground in a fake honey jail to non-healthy food, sunlight, medical care taken by the Isis Gestapo to bring right democracy. And we all say that Christa La Fatour means freedom on them. APPLAUSE Thank you very much, Dr. Malana. Okay, we have just a couple more. We're going to hear from next the executive director of the Wisconsin Muslim Civil Alliance, Sister Fosir Goresci. They were very, very involved in getting information out to the community. She worked with also elected officials. We want to really thank the elected officials. From those who came when we had our initial press conference, the officials from the city of Milwaukee and the surrounding communities, as well as those who subsequently helped in passing resolutions, Sister Fosir, can discuss some of that stuff. Thank you. APPLAUSE So, good afternoon, everyone. Look around you. This right here is what happens when you tell the community to sit down and be silent because our community leader was taken from his free speech. But we stand up instead. We speak up every single time. When Brother Salah was taken from this community, some people expected us to be quiet. They did not know this community. And at home below now, Brother Salah is home. APPLAUSE My name is Fosir Goresci, and I'm the executive director for the Wisconsin Muslim City Alliance, and I want to talk about how we got here, because this community deserves to celebrate the collective efforts that can protect us and bring our community numbers home when we stand up for one another. From the moment Brother Salah was taken and detained, we made a decision. We were not going to whisper. We were not going to wait. We were going to organize. Over 200 organizations from across Wisconsin and beyond signed onto a letter calling for Salah's release, and naming that this was a clear attack on his free speech to oppose the genocide in Gaza and uplift Palestinian rights. As a legal resident for over 30 years of a loving community leader and family man, we stood up to tell the truth about who he is. Muslim, non-Muslim, faith organizations, civil rights organizations, labor groups, and every other group we thank you, we are grateful for all of you. All of us united under one truth. This detention was wrong, and we were going to say this everywhere to everyone and to every level of government. Milwaukee spoke out. We saw that. Our Milwaukee Common Council, passed a resolution with 12 votes in favor. Thank you, Alderman, Alice Broward for leading that. We also saw that at the Milwaukee County Supervisor level, where I testified along with Brother Salah's family, and I watched supervisors who had not originally said yes and vote yes, but they then, after listening to all of us and listening to our community, voted yes. We wanted to thank the County Supervisor, Carolyn Gomez Tom, for offering that resolution. You rallied your colleagues, and you showed up for this community. We thank you. We did the champion, and you revert. We appreciate that. We went to Congress. Six members led by Congress will be went more, right here from Wisconsin's 4th District, wrote directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security to manning Brother Salah's release. Senator Tammy Baldwin led a Senator, joined by Senators Ray Sanders and letters, Senator Chris Van Holland, and the people of this community and across the nation sent over 25,000 letters to members of Congress. 25,000 letters, please. This is a community that refuses to be ignored. All of that, every resolution, every letter, every alcohol, every rally, built the pressure that supported Brother Salah's legal team as they fought for this for his heinous petition to be heard in federal court. And this week, a federal judge ordered his immediate release. And this is what advocacy really does look like. That is what it produces. And we will do this for every community member who is targeted by an administration that wants to silence us. Brother Salah's release is a victory. However, the work is not finished. We know that. We must still fight for his right to free speech in court. And there are others in detention, as Joey mentioned as well, that don't have a coalition behind them, no press conference, no resolutions. The system that made this possible are still in place. And we will do everything we can to speak for our neighbors, and that is what they deserve. To Brother Salah, we welcome you. Thank you so much. And you're free to belong to every person in this room, and I congratulate every one of us that we are so thankful and blessed to have you back. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Pazia. So we're in here for just two more individuals. The last person who will be speaking is one of the attorneys. He's also going to read a statement that was issued by Congress one more office. We did go down twice to see Salah's suit at the Clay County. And again, we appreciate your efforts. One of the things about this targeting of individuals is it is targeting individuals from many, many different communities. And one of the allies that the ISM has worked with for many years in the Muslim community has worked with for many years was the Latinx or the Hispanic community from many, many different backgrounds. And we are going to hear from Christine Delman Ortiz, who is here representing Moses to a mother. Thank you. It's wonderful to be here with all of you with Salah's suit at this time when to celebrate a incoming home to be reunited with his family and to be reunited with his community. It's also an opportunity for all of us, a commitment. As Salah's suit I mentioned earlier, to really commit ourselves again to the struggle ahead, to the days ahead. Because we know that we continue to face challenges, including the ongoing effort of deportation, but broadly speaking to, against efforts to silence, to send, and the abuse of power. And so it's, you know, really proved today that when we come together, we do make a difference. And not everyone speaks out, but when people speak out, that's what, it's speaking out on behalf of others, and that's what allows everyone to see the humanity of this situation, to understand the injustice, to peel away the walls of that prison, to expose the inhumanity, and to bring us together. And so we also thank you for your leadership and doing that on the phone, who is both under attack. Um, do you have any of this? Um, I know that Wisconsinite, who we've been supporting, and all of us as a community, was also recently released, still facing a deportation without having any criminal record, but it really shows in both cases part of what's been important to expose, has been those conditions in the jail, because we've been able to see how these prisons that are private prisons, this is a business. They're making money off this, have been voting people for long periods of time, and putting their lives and health at risk, at risk. Anita was able to, when she came on, to also share how she and others were offered three dollars a day, to work in the prison, in the cafeteria, and cleaning, and how she witnessed two miscarriages of two pregnant women because of the abusive conditions. So our struggle continues, and I just want to say all of this of what's been happening, it's an effort. We are seeing escalation against our communities, whether that's voting rights activists in Ohio, whether that's Palestinian activists who were part of the broader network to document ICE abuses in Minnesota. We know the escalation against organizations, and activists is part of the effort, right? But this is proof that at the time they come at us, we come back stronger, and we're united. So we need fear, with courage, and we need division with unity. It's an honor to be in the struggle with all of you to celebrate this moment, and we will continue to build in the times ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much, Christine. Before I call up a budget, I just want to mention one thing. I had the opportunity to drive back with Salah from Take Home Team yesterday, and we were talking about it, even while conditions were there, and Salah doesn't shy away from expressing himself and organizing people, and many of the people he actually said there were not from our community. Many came from Mexico and other areas, but he said how he had developed a relationship with them. Some of them didn't have much family, didn't have the resources he allowed them to use during his phone or the time method, you know, that being able to use the phone in his minutes, if I could call that natural phone. He helped them, you know, writing things in English, and again, he said it was a family, and when he left, he said it's amazing how they found out that he was leaving many of them were crying. And in their own language, just thanking him for the work that he actually did. And again, I just think that that's something too important to mention, that we are welcome to be with Salah. Our next one I have invited. I've known London for a long time. He's one of the board members of the ISM. I don't know if he did any work in 81 days, other than for Salah. I really, you know, every time we're on the phone all the time, I've bought him in meetings. He's, you know, talking.