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On Tuesday, an Iranian doctoral student on a student visa at University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa was arrested by ICE. On the same day, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student and Fulbright Scholar at Tufts University in Boston, was arrested by ICE and has now been disappeared, evidently to an ICE prison in Louisiana. She, too, is on a student visa. She was picked up on the street by people in hoods and masks.
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-university-of-alabama-doctoral-student
The Tufts student newspaper suggests that Ozturk was apprehended because of an article she wrote in that newspaper in support of Palestinians.
In both cases, ICE refuses to offer any explanation of why these students have been apprehended.
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-immigration-nazis-kidnap-another
Any of us watching these events and NOT thinking of what happened in Nazi Germany as the fascist regime consolidated its power and brought down an iron curtain of terror is missing an important lesson from the history of the 20th century.
The lesson: it can happen here.
When meanness — hostility towards targeted minority people — becomes not merely permitted but widely justified (They're criminals! They must have done something wrong! They're Muslims, after all) and celebrated, a society is in rapid decline towards dictatorship.
And no one is safe when that happens. It begins by targeting them.
It ends by targeting you and me.
"In 2025, America is disappearing and detaining brown-skinned immigrants with tattoos and pro-Palestinian college students because their opinions are deemed threats to foreign policy as the Trump Administration is literally sharing classified information and military strikes openly on an unsecured Signal chat with journalists.
What a time to be alive."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-not-college
"This is what secret police do in authoritarian regimes in service to dictators. Words like Stasi, Gestapo, and Savak apply. … This regime is cracking down on anyone and everyone they deem a threat. This includes French researchers, Lebanese doctors, Filipinos who have been here for 50 years, and a white Canadian actress who was detained for two weeks."
"By the time a federal judge ordered that Ozturk not be moved outside Massachusetts, she had already been transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana — more than 1,400 miles from where she was seized.
This is the latest in a disturbing pattern."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-ice-detention-of-a-turkish-student
"The Trump administration is essentially claiming it can detain noncitizens for expressing views it deems problematic, with no specific criminal charges and without providing evidence. If this doesn't concern you because you disagree with the political views of those being detained, then you were never actually concerned about free speech — you were just concerned about protecting certain viewpoints."
@wdlindsy The Trump administration is a step away from arresting citizens who it doesn’t like.