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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

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

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.
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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. [/quote]

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