Palestinian Columbia student detained by ICE is released, and has a message for Trump

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04/30/2025 20:40

Subject: Palestinian Columbia student detained by ICE is released, and has a message for Trump

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's terrible that Green Card holders are now having a hard time because Republicans are rejecting future citizens for their imagined thoughts alone. It's un-American.

Would you feel the same way if German white supremacists were protesting outside of black churches?

Didn’t think so.

I'm pretty sure one's thoughts about Netanyahu aren't anywhere on the citizenship application.

Is that what you Republicans are using to decide who's a good American? I think even most Israelis would fail your test.

You keep dodging the question. C’mon—grow a pair and answer the question:

Does the US government have the right to deport foreigners for speech/protest activities?

Are you similarly enthusiastic about President AOC deporting Green Card holders for hypothetical opinions?

This is why Republicans are garbage these days. There is no respect for law and precedent. It's all identity politics with Republicans.

You still haven’t answered the question!

Nonetheless, I’ll answer yours: yes.

I am a left-leaning independent and have no problem with the President, regardless of party, deporting foreign visitors who engage in political activity in the US.

Which tells me you just assume there are no first amendment rights to non-citizens. Which is not the case, although the history here is limited. But constraints mostly apply when you are ENTERING the US, not once you have been lawfully admitted, and the longer you have lived here and established a life in the US the more protection you do have under the first. The first amendment said nothing about citizens vs non-citizens, although it does not specify persons particularly. And the Alien Enemies Act (the only one to survive the loathed Alien and Sedition Acts) is currently raising serious constitutional questions about the president's ability to invoke it; these have yet to be settled, but the history of its use certainly does not favor Trump. (Remember how Alito relied on abortion history to overturn Roe v Wade?)

Concurring opinion in 1945 Bridges decision, which overturned the govt attempt to deport a longtime immigrant over his Communist politics:
“… once an alien lawfully enters and resides in this country he becomes invested with the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people within our borders. Such rights include those protected by the First and Fifth Amendments and by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. None of these provisions acknowledges any distinctions between citizens and resident aliens. They extend their inalienable privileges to all ‘persons’ and guard against any encroachment of those rights by federal or state authority. Indeed, this Court has previously and expressly recognized that Harry Bridges, the alien, possesses the right to free speech and free press and that the Constitution will defend him in the exercise of that right.”

Very thoughtful. But Republicans aren't going to read that. It's always knee jerk identity stuff with them. And Republicans today don't really care for the first amendment. Most Green Card holders have been here forever and have shared their opinions about current events on various mediums. Some like Trump. Some don't. But Republicans are very clear that they don't value free speech. They are demanding fealty to Donald Trump. That's what matters to them. And that is Un-American.