Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The Trump administration is targeting another Columbia University student for deportation due to speech crimes against the state of Israel. This time they’re going after a 21 year-old woman who was born in South Korea but has been in the US since age seven and is a legal permanent US resident. … The legal argument here is that because these activists are obstructing the foreign policy goals of the US government, it’s okay to remove them because they are not citizens. What people are missing about Trump’s new policy of deporting pro-Palestine protesters on the grounds that their activism is contrary to US ‘foreign policy interests’ is that it’s not just an attack on the activists’ political speech, it’s also an attack on US citizens’ right to hear criticism of their government’s foreign policy.” (03/26/25)