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Ron Sparks<p>"SURPR-ICE!... "But seriously though, we've revoked your visa, you're under arrest, and will be deported." <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ICE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23deportations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportations</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23studentvisas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#studentvisas</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23tufts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tufts</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23dhs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dhs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23maga" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maga</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23doge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doge</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23uspoli" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspoli</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23project2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#project2025</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23donaldtrump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#donaldtrump</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23muslims" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#muslims</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23middleeast" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#middleeast</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23columbia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#columbia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23mahmoudkhalil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mahmoudkhalil</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23immigration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23usa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#us</a><br><br><a href="https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ ...</a></p>
Bruce Mirken<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> update <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=2325511&amp;post_id=160082219&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=nunx&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revok</span><span class="invisible">ing-university-students-residency-status-middle-east?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=2325511&amp;post_id=160082219&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=nunx&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked</p><p>Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning</p><p>By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025</p><p>"Secretary of State <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a>, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a>.</p><p>"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scholars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scholars</span></a> have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DetentionCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DetentionCenters</span></a>, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.</p><p>"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders. </p><p>"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation. </p><p>"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> and were suspended, expelled or jailed.</p><p>"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and to assemble, experts and advocates said."</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump</span><span class="invisible">-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Clampdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clampdown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToAssemble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToAssemble</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A senior <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept ofcl called the demonstrators it's targeting "Hamasniks" — people the government claims have shown support for the terror group.</p><p>More than 300 foreign students have had their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a> revoked in the 3 weeks "Catch &amp; Revoke" has been in operation, the ofcl said. There are 1.5 million <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/student" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>student</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visa</span></a>-holders nationwide.</p><p>"Everyone is fair game," the ofcl said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>MIT 3/19/25</p><p>"...We are writing to encourage our international students and scholars on temporary visas and U.S. permanent residents (green card holders) to consider postponing or delaying international travel, whether personal, academic, or professional, until additional guidance is available...."</p><p><a href="https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/update-international-travel-guidance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">orgchart.mit.edu/letters/updat</span><span class="invisible">e-international-travel-guidance</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/studentvisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>studentvisas</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A fact sheet on the order promises "immediate action" by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> to prosecute "terroristic threats, arson, vandalism &amp; violence against American Jews" &amp; marshal all federal resources to combat what it called "the explosion of antisemitism on our campuses &amp; streets" since the Oct 7, 2023, attack on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> Islamist group <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a>.</p><p>[but the people who did that &amp; more to the US Capitol are a-okay]</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin to cancel <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a> of pro-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> protesters</p><p>Trump will sign an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> on Wed [purportedly] to combat antisemitism &amp; pledge to deport non-citizen college students &amp; others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House ofcl said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm</span><span class="invisible">inistration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Condemned by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> rivals &amp; others last wk for calling <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hezbollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hezbollah</span></a> militants “very smart,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> responded Mon by proposing harsher restrictions on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> based on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideology</span></a>, targeting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> sympathizers &amp; critics of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>.<br>
…he (also) said he would revoke <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deport</span></a> anti-Israel <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/demonstrators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demonstrators</span></a> …&amp; pledged to expand his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ban</span></a> on people from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Muslim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Muslim</span></a>-majority countries &amp; refuse <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>refugees</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/incitement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incitement</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/16/trump-muslim-immigrants-crackdown/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">23/10/16/trump-muslim-immigrants-crackdown/</span></a></p>