Grad Students being disappeared by ICE, Visas repealed by Rubio

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nycfan said:
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The guy from Somalia almost certainly was a ringleader of sorts. We didn't want to be seen harboring war criminals. Also, it's unclear if the guy was deported. DOJ only mentioned that Powell "recommended" to Tom Ridge.
 
Rock said:
Something’s going to give in this country. All this is already happening and Trump has only been in power 100 days and some change. Can’t even imagine how much worse things are going to get.
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We are in deep deep doo doo.
 
Rock said:
Something’s going to give in this country. All this is already happening and Trump has only been in power 100 days and some change. Can’t even imagine how much worse things are going to get.
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There are going to be civil rights lawsuits filed after this. And if I were on one of those juries, there would be a massive jury award.
 
Paine said:
Absolutely shameful decision by NYU. Withholding a diploma because a student exercised their free speech is not a good look.
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I don't think "not a good look" remotely does justice here -- I'm sure you'd agree with that.

Problem is that NYU is practically a subsidiary of the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, and a fiefdom of Martin Lipton in particular. That senior management/old guard of that firm is basically all Jewish, and IIRC many are very much Zionists. I'm only using the z-word as a descriptor, not as a pejorative. I'm merely saying I would expect WLRK's people to take a dim view.

NYU also has other challenges on this issue due to a consent decree signed in 2020. I don't know all the details of that, but the NYU folks might have felt some obligation to do something lest they invite more scrutiny.

I expect the speaker to get the diploma in short order, and that this was a dog-and-pony show.
 
nycfan said:
Project Esther:

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement​

Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.

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“… Project Esther’s architects envisioned outcomes that at the time might have seemed far-fetched. Curriculum it believed to be sympathetic to a “Hamas support” narrative would be taken out of schools and universities, and “supporting faculty” would be removed. Social media would be purged of content deemed to be antisemitic. Institutions would lose public funding. Foreign students who pushed for Palestinian rights would have their visas revoked, or be deported.

Once a sympathetic presidential administration was in place, the plan said, “We will organize rapidly, take immediate action to ‘stop the bleeding,’ and achieve all objectives within two years.”

Now, four months after Mr. Trump took office, Heritage Foundation leaders are taking an early victory lap.

Since the inauguration, the White House and other Republicans have called for actions that appear to mirror more than half of Project Esther’s proposals, a New York Times analysis shows, including threats to withhold billions in federal funding at universities and attempts to deport legal residents.

In interviews with The Times — the Heritage Foundation’s first public comments since Mr. Trump took office about its blueprint for shaping U.S. public opinion on Israel — Project Esther’s architects said there were clear parallels between their plan and recent actions against universities and pro-Palestinian demonstrators on both a state and a federal level.

“The phase we’re in now is starting to execute some of the lines of effort in terms of legislative, legal and financial penalties for what we consider to be material support for terrorism,” said Victoria Coates, a former deputy national security adviser to Mr. Trump and the vice president at Heritage who oversees Project Esther. …”
 


“… According to Khalil's legal team, immigration authorities wrote in their arrest report that agents told Khalil they had a warrant for his arrest. But the Trump-Vance administration admitted last month that there was no warrant, claiming it didn’t need one to arrest the Columbia pro-Palestine and anti-war protest leader because “it was likely he would escape before they could obtain a warrant.”

The government claimed Khalil was not cooperating and he was going to flee. The “exigent circumstances,” it claimed, amounted to Khalil being a “flight risk.”

But the new footage of Khalil’s abduction – along with a previously published video showing the moment plainclothes agents handcuffed him – reveals the government’s claims were a lie….”
 

U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Chinese Students, Rubio Says​

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”

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U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Chinese Students, Rubio Says

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”
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“Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday evening that the Trump administration would work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in “critical fields.”

He added that the State Department was revising visa criteria to “enhance scrutiny” of all future applications from China, including Hong Kong.

The move was certain to send ripples of anxiety across university campuses in the United States and was likely to lead to reprisal from China, the country of origin for the second-largest group of international students in the United States.…”
 
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