Grad Students being disappeared by ICE

And here is USCIS website (I'm looking for the statute governing legal permanent residence):

As a permanent resident (Green Card holder), you have the right to:

  • Live permanently in the United States provided you do not commit any actions that would make you removable under immigration law
  • Work in the United States at any legal work of your qualification and choosing. (Please note that some jobs will be limited to U.S. citizens for security reasons)
  • Be protected by all laws of the United States, your state of residence and local jurisdictions
I believe a green card can only be canceled by a judge, but in any case, unless USCIS is just making things up on the website, this is pretty clear evidence that Rubio cannot just revoke green cards at his discretion.

Note also that revocation of the visa doesn't automatically revoke the status. So even if the visa was terminated, it doesn't mean they can throw Khalil in a hole.
 
nycfan said:

Tufts Graduate Student Detained by Federal Immigration Authorities​

Rumeysa Ozturk is the latest international student targeted by the Trump administration​


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“… ICE records don’t show which detention center Ozturk is being held in. Khanbabai said even a day after the detainment, the government hasn’t charged Ozturk or told Khanbabai where her client is.

“This is incredibly bizarre and concerning,” Khanbabai said. …”
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My wife read about one who was snatched by ICE who was protesting the Russians in the Ukraine war. Stephen Miller is moving on from just Palestinians. They are not going to stop till they get rid of every foreign visa they can.
 
American went to the polls (or chose to stay home) and voted for fascism.

So we now have a fascist government.

I do hope that the individuals involved are able to be assisted, but America - on the whole - voted for this. We can be shocked, but we can't be surprised, when this happens.
 
She (Yunseo Chung) was one of the students arrested for this:

Pro-Palestinian Activists Occupy Barnard Building for 2nd Time in Week

The Police Department said several demonstrators were taken into custody during the sit-in at the college’s main library.

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Pro-Palestinian Activists Occupy Barnard Building for 2nd Time in Week

The Police Department said several demonstrators were taken into custody during the sit-in at the college’s main library.
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Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation​


apnews.com

Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation

President Donald Trump's efforts to deport foreign students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations are getting help from private groups that use facial-recognition technology to identify masked protesters.
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The unearthing and spreading of personal information to harass opponents has become commonplace in the uproar over the war in Gaza. The practice, known as doxing, has been used to expose both activists in the U.S. and Israeli soldiers who recorded video of themselves on the battlefield.

But the use of facial-recognition technology by private groups enters territory previously reserved largely for law enforcement, said attorney Sejal Zota, who represents a group of California activists in a lawsuit against facial recognition companyClearviewAI.

“We’re focused on government use of facial recognition because that’s who we think of as traditionally tracking and monitoring dissent,” Zota said. But “there are now all of these groups who are sort of complicit in that effort.”

The calls to report protesters to immigration authorities have raised the stakes.

“Please tell everyone you know who is at a university to file complaints about foreign students and faculty who support Hamas,” Elizabeth Rand, president of a group called Mothers Against Campus Antisemitism, said in a Jan. 21 post to more than 60,000 followers on Facebook. It included a link to an ICE tip line. …”

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There were self-appointed citizen detectives trying to help identify J6 protesters, as well … to me, the issue is more of whether the citizens are harassing and/or misidentifying people and even moreso how the government is using the information and whether the government is acting lawfully.
 
ChileG said:
How long before an American citizen is arrested for protesting or being critical of Trump?
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I'd estimate negative time. It has likely happened already, and we don't know about it. The person might have been let go after a few days, on condition that they not talk to anyone about it or they will get arrested again.

And, I think, only a matter of time before they try to deport a little kid with birthright citizenship.
 

Columbia University student ran from Homeland Security, but still doesn’t know why they came for her​



“… The biggest question for Srinivasan is why they came at all.

Srinivasan had renewed her student visa just a few months earlier, being granted permission for another five years in the United States — more than enough time to complete her PhD in urban planning. She was no stranger to immigration rules, having won a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard University for her master’s degree and then returning to her native India for the requisite two years after.

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She was given two pink-colored summonses by the New York Police Department — one for obstructing pedestrian traffic and the other for failure to disperse — before being released. A lawyer working pro bono for a number of the students got the summonses dismissed even before she had to appear in court. That means there should be no record against her, and as far as Srinivasan was concerned, she could forget the whole thing.

She did not report the dismissed summonses on her visa renewal.

When asked why Srinivasan’s visa was revoked, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement “these citations were not disclosed.”

That was never mentioned to Srinivasan when she was told her visa had been taken away. …”
 

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“On the day of the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023, Mr. Taal posted online, “Glory to the Resistance.” Cornell suspended him twice for his activities in the year that followed.

When dozens of tents went up on the campus lawn as part of an effort to get the school to divest its holdings in companies supporting the conflict, he was among the group’s leaders who refused to disband for two weeks. Later, he was suspended for participating in an unruly protest.

Now, he is one of at least nine international students the Trump administration is trying to remove from the country in its promise to quell activities it calls antisemitic.

But unlike some of the other students, who have been picked up by immigration agents and held in a detention facility in Louisiana, Mr. Taal has not yet been detained. Before he could be detained, he filed a pre-emptive lawsuit and he is fighting to block his detention in court. During the interview this week, he did not reveal his location. …”

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But then he announces he is self-deporting:



There is a lot not to like in this guy’s Twitter feed, but also a lot of legitimate protests. He is an easy target for the Administration because he will be easy to convince Americans that a 31-year-old student promoting pro-China and anti-Zionist rhetoric should go to school elsewhere. And as the great grandson of the first president of his home country, it appears not without resources.

In other words, in America, he is not a particularly sympathetic poster boy for fighting the student visa revocations.
 
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