Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts
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In a statement to ABC News, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said: "Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national and Tufts University graduate student, granted the privilege to be in this country on a visa. DHS and ICE 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 commonsense security."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tufts-phd-student-visa-arrested-im...
UPDATE: Her essay didn't even support Hamas, here's the essay: https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj
https://www.justsecurity.org/109012/legal-issues-deportation...
> To prove that an LPR is deportable, the government must convene a “removal hearing” before an immigration judge. At that hearing, government attorneys must prove deportability by “clear and convincing” evidence. A number of provisions define the procedures for conducting removal hearings with some specificity. Under those rules, the government must afford LPRs (as well as others in removal proceedings) notice of the charges against them, a right to confront the evidence against them and present their own evidence in response, and a lawyer if they can afford one.
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> While 237(a)(4)(C) itself makes the Secretary of State’s determination central to the question of deportability, no provision of immigration law grants the President, the Secretary of State, or anyone else unilateral authority to “revoke” LPRs of their status—by Executive Order or otherwise. They must follow the procedures described above.
Then you don't do it. I really wish the vast majority of the country realized that a lack of due process for anyone is the same as a lack of due process for everyone.
https://www.nacdl.org/Media/TrialPenaltyScourgeofAmericanCri...
An Frankly, that's par for the course here.
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I think folks in the US would be safer if they concentrated on the fact that:
"If they can remove due process from anyone, they can do it to you, too".
After all, once you're renditioned to a 3rd country with no legal status, what exactly are you going to do to get out of that situation? Hoping that you look white enough and never express a "bad" opinion doesn't seem all that safe to me.
To date, to the best of my searching, the DHS claims have not been backed up.
In a statement to the Guardian, a DHS spokesperson said on Wednesday that Ozturk was “granted the privilege to be in this country on a visa” and, without supplying any proof, accused her of supporting Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza and led the attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, prompting a massive military response from Israel.
The entire reason for adopting a system with no procedural safeguards is so that claims don't have to be backed up by anything, just as in the case of the completely bogus invocation of the Alien Enemies Act (the pro-Palestine campus activist deportations use a different pretext for denying any process, but the net effect is the same.)
They're testing the waters with green card holders now, but it's certain they'll eventually try this with citizens if they can get away with this (see both Project 2025 and their ongoing anti-trans policies).
See: https://x.com/StephenM/status/1712094935820780029?lang=en
Also, these are as "repetitive" as OAI releasing GPT x.x. Escalation of the same event, but everytime there is something new and worthy of discussion being pushed.
So if you don't like these news, ignore them. But don't use "HN rules" as the excuse.
If more people had empathy the collection of sociopaths currently in charge wouldn't be.
that said asking why this has been flagged is probably futile, people flag things they don't want to see, don't want to interact with it, so it's unlikely to get a representative cross-section of them to explain "why?"
People claim it's because its due to "irrelevant politics" but HN is probably 70% off topic subjects, tangentially connected to tech, etc. But no one is flagging these other off topic posts.
I can also see it in any comment I make which doesn't conform to right wing dogma getting voted up in the EU time zone, then getting voted down in the US timezone.
This was covered extensively in mainstream media.
* are people suggesting targets? who would that be? is this organized online somewhere?
* is there a 'u-tip' number people can dial anonymously?
* is this based on some metric over feed analysis, and smart tools so there's a threshold test in software and a priority list which is run as a join over immigration status?
I'm not asking people to break OPSEC, this is in the spirit of "how exactly did Hollerith cards help the bad people do the information processing" of past times.
Betar US: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/what-is-betar-us-th...
I've read at least one other article a week or two ago that I'm sure mentioned a different group, but can't recall it well enough, could well have been Betar US as well.
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj
The op-ed criticizes Tufts University’s dismissal of three resolutions passed by the Tufts Community Union Senate, which demand the university recognize alleged genocide in Palestine, divest from companies tied to Israel, and disclose its investments.
No support for Hamas that I can see.
I second this.
This is not about antisemitism. If the Gaza war had not happened, they would have found another excuse (trans issues for instance). What they are after is power.
This is obviously the case; it's not even the leading edge that hints that further attacks might come; the attacks on the institutions directly started at around the same time as the immigration actions: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/universities...
> This is not about antisemitism.
No, its about fascist corporatism and the drive to have all institutions, whether notionally "public" or "private", in society aligned with and directed by the will of the leader.
> If the Gaza war had not happened, they would have found another excuse (trans issues for instance).
Even with the Gaza pretexts being used for part of the campaign to bring universities in line, trans issues are also being used in that campaign; its not either/or.