Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents

The Times of India reported on March 29 that “hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State asking them to self-deport owing to campus activism.” According to the Times of India, the email being sent to students states, “Persons being deported may be sent to countries other than their countries of origin.” This could be a threat to deport them to places like a maximum security prison in El Salvador, where the Trump administration has sent some migrants without due process, in defiance of a U.S. federal judge. Zeteo’s Prem Thakker reported on March 29 that ICE is targeting even more students than previously realized, manually revoking their immigration status, according to three university officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. Thakker writes that “some students and universities are not even being made aware of those revocations — setting students up to be taken by immigration agents without even knowing it was coming.”