The Donald Trump Administration has declared war on freedom of inquiry on college and university campuses, and have arrested and plan to deport foreign students on visas who have expressed criticism of the Israel-Gaza War, which has killed over 50,000 Palestinians, a vast majority being women and children, NOT Hamas terrorists. The government is claiming that these students expressing their views are a threat to national security.
This author and blogger agrees that Hamas is a terrorist organization, responsible for the deaths of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, the greatest loss of Jewish lives since the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, which murdered close to 6 million Jews in Europe.
One can consider Hamas reprehensible, and consider the right of a strong response to that horrendous massacre nearly 18 months ago. But with the continued assault and lack of concern about the loss of innocent Palestinian lives with no sign of ending, the fact that people of conscience and principle might speak out or write against the continued tragedy, should not be grounds for arrest and deportation for expression of their freedom of speech.
If violence takes place, that is a different story, but there is no indication that foreign students who have been detained and sent to a Louisiana ICE Prison facility, have indeed been engaged in more than their constitutional rights to the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, with all who are living in the United States being entitled to such rights. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had stated that such was the case.
The use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 had not been used since World War II, and has only been used three times in a situation of declarations of war, which is not the case presently.
So Secretary of State Marco Rubio has abused his power to order arrests based solely on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 during the Red Scare “McCarthyism” Era, and reinforced in updating of the law in 1988. Again, Scalia had so declared his belief that these laws went too far!
Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/putins-endorsement-of-trumps-greenland-takeover-reflects-their-vision-of-a-new-world-order
Israeli Mossad asks African countries to take Palestinians from Gaza.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/israel-move-palestinians-gaza-indonesia-somalia
Trump threatens Iran with “bad things” unless it accepts nuclear deal.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/trump-iran-nuclear-weapons-deal-letter
Russian medical researcher at Harvard, who protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-medical-researcher-harvard-protested-ukraine-war-detained-ice-rcna198528
That is absolutely ludicrous and unacceptable!
US issues broad order to consulates to vet student visas over ‘terrorist activity’.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/student-visa-applications-denials
USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56968/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees
Truly evil – a LOT of people are going to die because of that.
FDA’s top vaccine scientist forced out, sharply rebukes Kennedy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/rfk-jr-fda-vaccine-scientist-peter-marks/
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report
RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-to-gut-vaccine-promotion-and-hiv-prevention-office-sources-say/
Trump chooses Fox News contributor Sara Carter as next drug czar.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/trump-drug-czar-sara-carter-fox-news-tapped-to-head-ondcp/
Federal judge blocks Trump from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
https://apnews.com/article/trump-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-d091cfb0794813e40098a40e00a6d1c2
Two major law firms fight back against Trump orders seen as retribution.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343616/two-major-law-firms-fight-back-against-trump-orders-seen-as-retribution
EVERY law firm should do that!
Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms
ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east
Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case must continue in New Jersey.
“Ruling does not guarantee Columbia University protester will be moved out of a detention facility in Louisiana”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/mahmoud-khalil-case-new-jersey