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This is the reasoning that DHS gave for abducting the student:

"Rumesya Ozturk is a Turkish national and Tufts University graduate student, granted the privilege to be in this country on a visa. DHS and ICE investigations found [b]Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans[/b]. A visa is a privilege not a right. [b]Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated.[/b] This is commonsense security."

She co-authored an OpEd. That's it. I read it. There is nothing pro-Hamas in it. Hamas is not mentioned at all. The op-ed simply asks the university administration to uphold: "3 out of 4 resolutions [passed by the Tufts Community Union Senate] demanding that the University acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, apologize for University President Sunil Kumar’s statements, disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel."  I myself participated in college protests in the 80s asking my university to divest from investments in South Africa, which still had apartheid. That's a crime now?

Also, what's with the reference--twice--to Hamas as "a foreign terrorist organization that [b]relishes the killing of Americans[/b]" and "terrorists who [b]kill Americans[/b]?" I thought that the mission of Hamas was to destroy the Jewish state (obviously reprehensible and unacceptable). Now, according to DHS, its mission is also to kill Americans? [/quote]

Hamas killed 40+ Americans on 10/7.[/quote]

I'm assuming they were dual nationals, not tourists. I happen to be a dual national due to a European parent, so I can relate to dual citizens in Israel, but the way the DHS language is written, it makes it sound like Hamas wants to kill [b]all[/b] Americans, not just Israeli Americans/American Israelis. [/quote]

NP here: um, I'm pretty sure Hamas is down with kidnapping and killing Americans even if they are not dual Israeli citizens. If given the opportunity and all that...why wouldn't they? They like gaining leverage over the allies of Israel.

But that's not germane to the issue being discussed in this thread.

I have not seen any evidence from the federal government that the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk was necessary. If they did it solely because of her op-ed, that is an egregious violation of the 1st Amendment.

The Feds need to come with receipts, like they did with the surgeon from Brown who was literally posing with terrorists at Nasralllah's funeral in her photo reel. [/quote]

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