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Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her - Elsacat - Mar 27 2025
https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892
Quote:A senior DHS spokesperson confirmed Ozturk’s detention and the termination of her visa.
“DHS and (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege, not a right. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is common sense security,” the spokesperson told the AP.
Quote:Ozturk was one of four students last March who wrote an op-ed in The Tufts Daily criticizing the university’s response to its community union Senate passing resolutions that demanded Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.
Friends said Ozturk was not otherwise closely involved in protests against Israel. But after the piece was published, her name, photo and work history were featured by Canary Mission, a website that says it documents people who “promote hatred of the U.S.A., Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.” The op-ed was the only cited example of “anti-Israel activism” by Ozturk.
RE: Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffin... - MenacinglyLavender - Mar 27 2025
The video itself was absolutely horrifying, this poor woman was straight up abducted.
Also hits close to home as someone very dear to me is here on a green card. It’s hard to comprehend what is happening here in the US…
RE: Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffin... - magdalyn - Mar 27 2025
I'm losing track of the number of stories of people being disappeared over even the least criticism of government policies.
Fascism is here and it's both sickening and terrifying.
RE: Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffin... - eyeswideopen - Mar 27 2025
I will never understand the people who think electing Trump because "he knows what a woman is" was worth the complete destruction of the rule of law and due process. Without the latter, it doesn't matter if he knows that you're a woman or not.
RE: Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffin... - magdalyn - Mar 27 2025
(Mar 27 2025, 9:34 AM)eyeswideopen I will never understand the people who think electing Trump because "he knows what a woman is" was worth the complete destruction of the rule of law and due process. Without the latter, it doesn't matter if he knows that you're a woman or not.
Trump knows what a woman is....all the better to try and set us back 100 years or so, until we're in the place he thinks is appropriate for us, i.e., full property status.
Those voters are the very definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
RE: Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffin... - eyeswideopen - Mar 27 2025
(Mar 27 2025, 9:42 AM)magdalyn(Mar 27 2025, 9:34 AM)eyeswideopen I will never understand the people who think electing Trump because "he knows what a woman is" was worth the complete destruction of the rule of law and due process. Without the latter, it doesn't matter if he knows that you're a woman or not.
Trump knows what a woman is....all the better to try and set us back 100 years or so, until we're in the place he thinks is appropriate for us, i.e., full property status.
Those voters are the very definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
As an American, I'm s sickened and horrified by what is happening. I've been participating in the weekly protests at the local Tesla outlets in my area and calling my Congressional rep and senators (all Dems) using the 5 calls app (useful if you hate the phone like I do), but any real accountability for what is happening can only come in next year's elections. The damage that has been done and is being done by the MAGA cult will be immense and in most cases non-reparable. I'm so very sorry that we did not have enough votes to defeat Trump resoundingly.
RE: Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffin... - komorebi - Mar 27 2025
As a legal immigrant, I try not to think about this. Somehow. While also keeping tabs on ICE's movements in my state.
RE: Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffin... - magdalyn - Mar 27 2025
(Mar 27 2025, 12:01 PM)komorebi As a legal immigrant, I try not to think about this. Somehow. While also keeping tabs on ICE's movements in my state.
That has got to be horribly nerve-wracking. I hate this so much for you and everyone else it's affecting.
I have a lot of coworkers who are either Latino or who are brown enough they could be targeted.
I'm in a pretty central state, but I have no doubt they'll come after people here, too.