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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another student has been targeted for deportation, Rumeysa Ozturk.

She wrote an op-ed in her student paper at Tufts that was critical of the university's ties to companies in Israel.

I guess that's enough to get you deported now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/26/trump-presidency-news/#link-IRX6I6R3WNFKFC43JWLOI656WY

Here is her op ed:   https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj[/quote]

This is absolutely outrageous and completely unAmerican. I read the oped which was co-authored by three other students so not written by the student in question exclusively. It was measured and respectful. Since when is supporting the humanity of the Palestinian people a crime?

I worked with international students for years and can tell you that this will have a chilling effect on foreign student applications to study in the US. Many of these students come from countries that do not have freedom of the press or free speech. One of the reasons they want to study here is for the free exchange of ideas. So now we’re basically telling them that we’re just like Turkey or China?

WTF people?!!! Wake up! [/quote]

The chilling effect on foreign student applications is what they want. I can see where one might say that US universities are allowing too many non-US students in and training our competition. Fair point. But……MAGA wants it to go back to the 1950s where almost all colleges, especially Ivy League type, were mostly filled with white men who went to private schools.
Except, this isn’t 1950. What will happen is the best of them will go to Switzerland, France, or China. It will make it harder to compete technologically wise in 30 years when the best of these kids make discoveries. Obviously, some US students will make discoveries……provided the “brain drain” doesn’t now go OUT of the US due to a fascist state. [/quote]

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