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Today, 5:06 pm

https://inthesetimes.com/article/mahmou ... ncampments

--------------------------------------------------Since the college encampments began, it’s been clear that people like Khalil — international students engaged in campus activism for Palestine — were to have no right to freedom of speech, assembly or movement that the U.S. government must respect and that they would become the target of increased state repression. Trump’s platform, adopted by the Republican National Committee last year, included as one of its 20 points, ​“Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again.”Khalil’s case — in which his role as a negotiator for Columbia’s Palestine solidarity movement was declared a national security risk that warrants the revocation of his green card — alongside other political deportation cases, like those of Badar Khan Suri, Rasha Alawieh, Momodou Taal, Yunseo Chung and now Rumeysa Ozturk, taken away by masked agents on a Somerville, Massachusetts, street last Wednesday, is shocking, but it should not be surprising. It’s happening in lockstep with other forms of weaponizing the immigration system by an increasingly authoritarian executive branch.