DoJ lawyers say detained Tufts student was sent to Louisiana before court order

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Lawyers for the US government on Thursday argued in court in Boston that they had transferred a doctoral student at nearby Tufts University to immigration detention in Louisiana before a court had ordered that she should not be removed from Massachusetts without prior notice.

At a hearing on Thursday morning in federal court, a lawyer for the student, a Turkish national, withdrew an emergency motion filed the previous day requesting that the government produce her after she was shipped off to Louisiana. The motion and one from the government were sealed.

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DoJ lawyers say detained Tufts student was sent to Louisiana before court order

Federal judge in Boston issues order giving government until Friday to answer why student has been detained
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Tuesday’s detention is the latest in a series of arrests of students who are not accused of any crime but have been involved in pro-Palestinian activism on student campuses, in a sharp escalation of anti-immigration crackdowns and attacks on political speech by the Trump administration.
 
Hume said:
Tuesday’s detention is the latest in a series of arrests of students who are not accused of any crime but have been involved in pro-Palestinian activism on student campuses, in a sharp escalation of anti-immigration crackdowns and attacks on political speech by the Trump administration.
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Students on visas are GUESTS in our country. They are here to be students not activists. If they are poor guests they need to go home. If they don't like it here we will deport them.
 
FastLane said:
Students on visas are GUESTS in our country. They are here to be students not activists. If they are poor guests they need to go home. If they don't like it here we will deport them.
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I keep hearing this. But don't we celebrate free speech in America? Don't we value the marketplace of ideas?

What they're doing now w/ these students is un-American in SPIRIT. I really don't think there is any denying that. Yes, they're here as guests - but when do we ever tell guests they'd better be quiet & keep their opinions to themselves?
 
BartenderElite said:
I keep hearing this. But don't we celebrate free speech in America? Don't we value the marketplace of ideas?

What they're doing now w/ these students is un-American in SPIRIT. I really don't think there is any denying that. Yes, they're here as guests - but when do we ever tell guests they'd better be quiet & keep their opinions to themselves?
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Yes . And we are free to say GO HOME. These people are agitators and are fomenting problems for Jewish students.
 
FastLane said:
Yes . And we are free to say GO HOME. These people are agitators and are fomenting problems for Jewish students.
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If people are genuinely harassing students or committing vandalism, it's a different story.

Is someone who writes an op-ed criticizing Israel's actions "agitating"?

I also feel that there is a lot of conflation of people who are pro-Gazan & pro-Palestinian, of which there are many (and it is generally a humanitarian position), and people who actually support Hamas, who I believe are very few.

Hamas are Palestinians - but Palestinians are not Hamas. There is a lot of suffering there right now.

We shouldn't be so afraid of opinions.
 
BartenderElite said:
I keep hearing this. But don't we celebrate free speech in America? Don't we value the marketplace of ideas?

What they're doing now w/ these students is un-American in SPIRIT. I really don't think there is any denying that. Yes, they're here as guests - but when do we ever tell guests they'd better be quiet & keep their opinions to themselves?
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When they annoy family members.

My son had a friend that needed a place to stay for a while. I let him stay in an apartment over my shop. After a while he got in conflict with my son. He actually threatened my son. So I deported him from my property. His being able to stay here depended on his behavior and he behaved poorly. The ass also burned a hole in the middle of the carpet smoking even though I had asked him not to smoke in the apartment. No good deed goes unpunished I guess. :dunno:

The same thing applies to students on visa. They are only here due to our generosity.
 
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