Ice says it will stop
The application of immigration and customs declared that their agents were in the work diligently applied “more than 400 federal laws” to prevent the following from crossing “the border illegally”: people, money, money, products and ideas, in a publication on the social media site X that was eliminated hours later on Thursday.
“Ideas?” Questions.
It seems that the country’s main agency for the country’s immigration, at least briefly, has briefly declared the border thought police. In a country that is supposed to believe in freedom of expression and thought, this raises a lot of questions.
What ideas believe that ice is illegal? How can ideas even cross the border illegally? And how the ice screen for these illegal ideas to prevent them from entering?
ICE did not answer these questions, but he told News themezone that “the position was sent without adequate approval and should not have been shared.”
“‘Ideas’ should have said ‘intellectual property’,” said an ICE spokesman in an email.
That does not mean that Trump administration and ice do not watch ideas that they consider “illegal”, even stripping the visas and green cards of the students, denying entry to foreign visitors and arresting and deporting people for their opinions.
X.com/icagov
The main one is any criticism of Israel. The Administration has sought deportation of numerous students for their participation or support for protests against the Israel War in Gaza. The highest profile of these cases are those of the University of Columbia Mahmoud Khalil and the student of the University of Tufts Rumeysa Ozturb.
Khalil, a permanent legal resident, was a spokesman for student protests against the Israel War in Gaza. He had never been arrested or discovered that he participated in any act beyond his free exercise of speech. The administration stripped him of his legal status, arrested him and moved to deport him.
Similarly, Ozturb, which is in a student visa, simply co -written an opinion article in his student article that asks the university to follow a student resolution to uninverting certain companies involved in Israel. She was stripped of her student visa, collected by unidentified ice agents in a street in Massachusetts and led to a detention center in Louisiana.
Like Khalil, the Administration seeks to deport Yunseo Chung, a student at Columbia, 21 years old and permanent legal resident who moved to the United States from South Korea when he was 7 years old. Chung was stripped of his legal status to participate in protests against the war in Gaza and is challenging his case in court. She won a temporary restriction order on March 25 blocking her arrest while her case progresses.
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These are only three of the dozens, if not hundreds, of similar cases in which visas holders and legal residents are being punished for their ideas.
The administration explicitly establishes that Khalil and others are being deported by their ideas. In a letter to the Court hearing, the case of Khalil sent on April 9, the State Department declared that Secretary of State Marco Rubio moved to strip him of legal status and deport him only on the basis of his “beliefs, statements or past or expected associations that are legal,” according to the News.
It remains to be seen if Ice really plans to continue in its publication of social networks and screen for “illegal” ideas. But one thing can be ensured, those who challenge the efforts of the administration to strip students, teachers and other visitors of their visas or legal status for the ideas that they have surely aim at this publication on social networks as evidence, since they challenge the assault of the Trump administration to the first amendment in court.