Tufts student detained by ICE

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The sad thing is that a lot of this was devised by pro-Israel businessmen who donate to both the GOP and Dems. Look up the Canary Mission - they have provided a list of people they want Trump to deport or imprison. This woman was on their hit list for writing an op-Ed in the student newspaper.

Here’s their hit list article on her:
https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk

That’s terrifying. They have students, professors, medical professionals. WTF. Is anyone in the media talking about this organization?

And if you click on certain random names, the crime of the person is that he/she participated in anti-Israel protests.

Many thousands participated in these protests. Among them are many foreign nationals who weren't even GC holders likely. How come they aren't all getting arrested en masse if protesting against Israel is suddenly a crime? Could there possibly be other intel they had on these specific people that they were singled out?

A lot of these people seem to be in pro Palestinian student organizations in colleges. They were probably posted on the organizations social media accounts and that is how names were pulled.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps she should have been warned that when you’re a guest here on a student visa, you behave like a guest — on your best behavior.

Good riddance.

[Anonymous]

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Perhaps she should have been warned that when you’re a guest here on a student visa, you behave like a guest — on your best behavior.

Good riddance.

Aren't you at all concerned about the means with which they are doing this? Do the ends justify the means?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps she should have been warned that when you’re a guest here on a student visa, you behave like a guest — on your best behavior.

Good riddance.

Aren't you at all concerned about the means with which they are doing this? Do the ends justify the means?

The individuals cheering on or indifferent to what’s happening on the latest episode of Fascism in America are only equipped to take those positions because it directly serves their interests: racism and pro-Israeli fever, in most cases.

If the tables were turned, those same individuals would be squealing like pigs in outrage over these events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps she should have been warned that when you’re a guest here on a student visa, you behave like a guest — on your best behavior.

Good riddance.

What is the bad behavior you are referring to? Can you be specific?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The lesson here is that non-citizens express their politics at their own risk. They have no absolute rights to say whatever they want, and the government has the absolute right to revoke permission for them to be here. That conduct presently unacceptable to the government has been tolerated in the past has no bearing on whether it can, should, or will be tolerated in the future.

Turkish and Chinese students can go home and say whatever they want to about U.S. or their own country's foreign policies. Their home governments may or may not tolerate them doing so. I suspect they'd be much more circumspect at home than they have been here.

It's disgusting that you're trying to justify this. Everyone has absolute rights. That's what this country was founded on.

Non-citizens do not have absolute rights, simple legal reality.

Can you cite a source that states legal immigrants do not have rights such as due process? Because I’m pretty sure the constitution does in fact cover non-citizens.

Guests should never have identical rights and responsibilities as permanent residents.

[Anonymous]

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Perhaps she should have been warned that when you’re a guest here on a student visa, you behave like a guest — on your best behavior.

Good riddance.

Perhaps someone should remind the Moussad agents on this thread that the United States is our country, not theirs, and they should show some gratitude for all the help we have provided in assuring their existence despite the well-earned desire of many to see them wiped off the face of the planet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps she should have been warned that when you’re a guest here on a student visa, you behave like a guest — on your best behavior.

Good riddance.

Perhaps someone should remind the Moussad agents on this thread that the United States is our country, not theirs, and they should show some gratitude for all the help we have provided in assuring their existence despite the well-earned desire of many to see them wiped off the face of the planet.

What kind of incoherent non sequitur is this? The pro-Hamas troll again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/03/26/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration/4fef14e4-0a6c-11f0-8e5e-3a8d70fc4250_story.html

Thought this story deserved its own thread. Grad student whose only apparent connection to pro-Palestinian speech was co-writing an op ed last year calling on the President to consider student Senate resolutions passed about the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was put into an unmarked car by multiple masked people who show no id.

A neighbor's commentary:

When shown a video of the arrest, Ferraro became visibly emotional.

“It’s too much,” he said. “I don’t need to live in a place where people get plucked off the street like that, just walking around. That’s bananas. That’s just insane.”

“I don’t care what she was doing,” Ferraro continued. “You can’t just nab people off the sidewalk and throw them in a car and take them away, and expect anyone who’s seen it to be alright afterwards.”

[url]https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/metro/its-really-scary-students-residents-react-sudden-arrest-tufts-student/
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Long overdue

F1 students are fed into OPT program and used to replace US entry level workers

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has introduced H.R. 2315, the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act, to eliminate the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program that businesses use to avoid hiring American graduates:

OPT has grown more than 400% in recent years and is bigger than the H-1B program, which OPT was created to circumvent.
Employers get a discount for NOT hiring Americans because they don't have to pay payroll taxes on OPT employees. The FICA fund loses out on $2.5 billion each year due to this.

OPT visas are not merit-based, have no wage protections, and no restrictions or limitations.

Fewer than 50% of U.S. STEM graduates are finding jobs in STEM fields, while 53% of OPT workers are in STEM fields.

The OPT program is harming American STEM grads by giving companies a financial incentive to hire temporary foreign workers, even though the government is actively encouraging American students to study for STEM degrees.

Stop the exploitation and help our own children.

[Anonymous]

Just think. It just a few years all who have donned a Don the Con MAGA hat will suddenly, and without due process, be picked up and swiftly taken to a tropical AI resort (EL Salvadorian prison). Due process? Not for people we decide are terrorists!

[Anonymous]

Was this woman even notified that her visa was revoked? What warranted her getting snatched up by six plain clothed agents and shipped to Louisiana and unable to consult a lawyer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps she should have been warned that when you’re a guest here on a student visa, you behave like a guest — on your best behavior.

Good riddance.

Perhaps someone should remind the Moussad agents on this thread that the United States is our country, not theirs, and they should show some gratitude for all the help we have provided in assuring their existence despite the well-earned desire of many to see them wiped off the face of the planet.

What kind of incoherent non sequitur is this? The pro-Hamas troll again?

Did you read the quote?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/03/26/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration/4fef14e4-0a6c-11f0-8e5e-3a8d70fc4250_story.html

Thought this story deserved its own thread. Grad student whose only apparent connection to pro-Palestinian speech was co-writing an op ed last year calling on the President to consider student Senate resolutions passed about the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was put into an unmarked car by multiple masked people who show no id.

A neighbor's commentary:

When shown a video of the arrest, Ferraro became visibly emotional.

“It’s too much,” he said. “I don’t need to live in a place where people get plucked off the street like that, just walking around. That’s bananas. That’s just insane.”

“I don’t care what she was doing,” Ferraro continued. “You can’t just nab people off the sidewalk and throw them in a car and take them away, and expect anyone who’s seen it to be alright afterwards.”

[url]https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/metro/its-really-scary-students-residents-react-sudden-arrest-tufts-student/
[/url]

Long overdue

F1 students are fed into OPT program and used to replace US entry level workers

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has introduced H.R. 2315, the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act, to eliminate the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program that businesses use to avoid hiring American graduates:

OPT has grown more than 400% in recent years and is bigger than the H-1B program, which OPT was created to circumvent.
Employers get a discount for NOT hiring Americans because they don't have to pay payroll taxes on OPT employees. The FICA fund loses out on $2.5 billion each year due to this.

OPT visas are not merit-based, have no wage protections, and no restrictions or limitations.

Fewer than 50% of U.S. STEM graduates are finding jobs in STEM fields, while 53% of OPT workers are in STEM fields.

The OPT program is harming American STEM grads by giving companies a financial incentive to hire temporary foreign workers, even though the government is actively encouraging American students to study for STEM degrees.

Stop the exploitation and help our own children.

I’ll be helping my own children by finding a way to get them out of this autocratic hellhole. My fellow Americans don’t deserve their talents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was this woman even notified that her visa was revoked? What warranted her getting snatched up by six plain clothed agents and shipped to Louisiana and unable to consult a lawyer.

An op-ed she coauthored with three other students in a university paper a year ago. That's it. Search earlier posts in this thread for a link to the op-ed so you can read it yourself.