"Just so it’s clear: It does not END with snatching people off the street on student visas who advocate positions the regime doesn't approve of—that is how it BEGINS."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech #Ozturk
/8

"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
/7

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/

"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
/6

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-trump-admin-spies-on-social

"This [i.e., the kidnapping of Rumeysa Ozturk] is an illegitimate act of political kidnapping, straight out of the Pinochet-Videla-Ríos Montt playbook. And it is no longer an isolated incident."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech #Ozturk
/5

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64309330/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detained-ice/

"People are being swept off the streets right now, every day, and being detained without legitimate cause. The administration is fast-forwarding to its desired conclusion and daring the courts to stop it, while also choosing which court orders to obey and which to defy. Even if the judiciary were somehow able to stop all of this, the chilling effect remains—which, after all, is the point."

~ Alex Shephard

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #fascism #FreeSpeech
/4

https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal

"They are flexing their powers and normalizing their fascist behavior by going after the most vulnerable and marginalized among us. They are punishing innocent immigrants, college students, and foreign academics. They have expanded their targets to include law firms, media companies, and judges, and it will eventually include anyone who dares defy their authoritarian dictates."

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech
/3

"It begins with pro-Palestinian students and brown-skinned immigrants as the Trump Administration and the MAGA movement are going to abuse their power to silence all their critics and enemies. ...

None of us are safe in the Trump regime."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech
/2

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-trump-administration-is-targeting

As Cinthya Rodriguez notes, the tools used by Musk-Trump's fascist government as it targets immigrants are being proudly furnished by big tech companies, whose CEOS lined up with Trump at his inauguration:

"Denouncing the Trump Administration’s fascism is not enough. The corporations and oligarchs standing behind it need to be put on notice."

#Trump #Fox #ICE #immigrants #fascism #Ozturk #SiliconValley #TechBros
/10

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/silicon-valley-trump-deportations/

"But after masked, plainclothes federal officers from the Department of Homeland Security abducted Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk off the street in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, Kilmeade sang a different tune.

'I love the message it's sending to other students causing unrest,' Kilmeade said Thursday morning."

#Trump #Fox #ICE #immigrants #fascism #Ozturk
/9

"In August 2022, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade ominously warned his audience that 'Joe Biden’s new army' of armed IRS agents was going to 'hunt down and kill middle class taxpayers.'"

~ John Knefel

#Trump #Fox #ICE #immigrants #fascism
/8

"The US state department is undertaking a widespread visa-review process, revoking hundreds of visas and placing hundreds more under scrutiny, targeting mostly foreign nationals engaged in pro-Palestine activism, according to official statements.

The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, confirmed the scale of the crackdown, announcing that he has canceled visas for more than 300 people…."

~ Joseph Gedeon

#Trump #Rubio #ICE #immigrants #fascism
/7

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/state-department-visas-pro-palestine-protesters

"A Harvard scientist who fled Russia because she opposed the war in Ukraine is facing deportation back to the land of Vladimir Putin, her friends claim.

Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at the U.S. border on February 16 while returning from France and had her visa revoked, according to her friend Cora Anderson."

~ Io Dodds

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportations #Russia
/6

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html

"We know they’re lusting to widen their net against perceived enemies.

That was on full display in broad daylight Tuesday in Boston when masked federal agents in hoodies stopped and handcuffed a Tufts University doctoral student and Fulbright scholar. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and Muslim wearing a hijab, was put into an unmarked car and shipped off to a detention center in Louisiana, just as Columbia student Mahmoud Kahlil was earlier this month."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #Ozturk
/5

"There are Americans cheering for these unjust deportations because they’ve been convinced by Trump’s dehumanizing, demonizing verbiage that immigrants are not deserving of humane treatment. But we can be sure this is not the end—this is just the beginning of this fascist regime’s terror campaign aimed at deterring refugees, savoring cruelty and silencing dissent."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportations #Ozturk
/4

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/reveling-in-terror-tactics