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#ColumbiaUniversity’s move to use #police force to clear demonstrators…could have been avoided, as #students were urgently asking if they could leave voluntarily….

The students, who that morning had broken into Hamilton Hall & barricaded the doors, told faculty intermediaries they had enlisted the help of a Harlem pastor to help them depart safely. But university admin, saying time had run out, allowed hundreds of police officers to come onto the campus to remove protesters from the building.

"In a developing story, it appears the Trump administration is quietly targeting even more students for deportation and doing so in a way that is taking universities and the students themselves completely by surprise."

~ Prem Thakker

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #students #universities #deportation
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zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revok

Zeteo · SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s KnowledgeBy Prem Thakker
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The push to ID masked #protesters using #FacialRecognition & turn them in is blurring the line between #public #law enforcement & #private groups.And the efforts have stirred anxiety among foreign #students worried that #activism could jeopardize their legal status.

“We don’t know who these individuals are or what they’re doing with this information,”said Abed Ayoub, natl exec dir of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Cmte. “Essentially the administration is outsourcing surveillance.”
#Trump

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A #RightWing Jewish group said some identified w/the tool were on a list of names it gave to #Trump’s admin, urging that they be deported in accordance w/his call for the expulsion of foreign #students who participated in “pro-jihadist” #protests.

Other pro-#Israel groups have enlisted help from supporters on #campuses, urging them to report foreign students who participated in protests against the war in #Gaza to #ICE.

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"As U.S. President Donald Trump pledges to deport 'millions and millions' of 'criminal aliens,' thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas -- from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud."

~ Reuters

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech #Ozturk
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reuters.com/world/us/thousands

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"The Trump administration is requiring that foreign students studying in, or seeking to study in the United States, pass an ideological test in order to obtain a visa, according to a “sensitive” State Department directive issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and which I obtained. ...

The directive, dated March 25, bears the subject line 'Enhanced Screening and Social Media Vetting for Visa Applicants.'”

~ Ken Klippenstein

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students
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kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusiv

Ken Klippenstein · Exclusive: Trump Admin Spies on Social Media of Foreign StudentsBy Ken Klippenstein
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