The US immigration and customs enforcement agency is tracking international scholars across the United States and taking into custody.Credit: Raquel Natalicchio/Houston through Getty through Chronicle
A wave of shock and fear has spread among the university’s researchers as American immigration officials have gone to detain and deportation of international students and scholars. Officials in several examples alleged that the involvement of prisoners in protests against the Israeli war in Gaza is a threat to national security.
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Many organizations representing university faculty members Case filed on 25 March To challenge the tasks that include high-profile cases that many students in jail have landed and sent to hide others. Professor and student who used to talk Nature It is said that they have already started brushing their legal rights and takes precautions.
“People are living in fear, if not for his life, for his freedom and safety,” says Michael Tadius, a mathematician at Colombia University in New York City, “Michael Thadeius, a mathematician from Columbia University in New York City, is definitely called Michael Thaadius. He said that US President Donald Trump’s government is just a part of a comprehensive attack on scientists and academics, including the cancellation of hundreds of million dollars in research grants in Colombia and other universities.
A graduate student who studies public health Nature They are detained to return from a pending research trip abroad if they are preparing contingent plans about how they are reunited with their children and spouse. “These are crazy things to think in the United States,” scientists say, who recently abolished their primary research grant by the Trump team and who asked for oblivion to the fear that they would be targeted by the administration.
Trump White House and US State Department did not respond NatureRequest for comment.
Take away
Trump set a platform for current detention Signing an executive order on 30 January American immigration officials were called to deported Hamas’s alleged “sympathetic”, who attacked Israel in October 2023 and named a terrorist group by the United States as a terrorist group. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, many students and professors rejected the allegation, arguing that most of the protesters were not supporting Hamas, but were opposing the post -Israel war in Gaza, which according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, killed thousands of Palestinians.
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US State Department head Marco Rubio confirmed at a press event last week that his agency had canceled the visa for at least 300 students, with more. “Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take his visa,” Rubio said.
In about a dozen cases, which have attracted media attention, officials with American immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agency have detained students and scholars who are legally living legally on either visas or ‘green cards’ in the United States that provide a permanent residence position. The list includes several famous supporters-Filistini activists such as Mahmud Khalil, Graduates of Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, and Rumca öztürk, a PhD students, studying the use of socio-media use among the youth at Tufts University at Medford, Massachusetts. Both are being held at a detention center in Louisiana.
Although the US State Department has a wide latitude on visas and green cards, last week, a case filed by faculty organizations in a federal court in Boston has been accused in many examples, these actions violate the constitutional rights of the students for free speech, which scholars say that the scholars say, not only the American citizens.
Chinese Somarville decorates a tree in Massachusetts, where ice agents arrested Rumisa öztürk, a student of Tufts University PhD.Credit: Scott Esen/Getty
“This is an ideological exile,” says Ramya Krishnan, a lawyer at the Knight First Amendment Institute of Columbia University, and advocate Ramya Krishnan. She creates special concern with the argument of the Trump administration that several scholars arrested have posed a threat to the US foreign policy as they have raised their voice about the war in Gaza. The administration has to stop saying that there are danger on climate policy or other issues? She asks. “In fact there is no limit to the principle of the government here, and it is so disturbing.”
Already, many cases seem to be hinged on issues other than students’ participation in Gaza war protests. For example, on 16 February, a bio -information scientist at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was arrested on the US border after failing to declare a frog fetus in bringing Kasania Petrova to his laboratory from France. He is also being detained in Louisiana.
White House and State Department did not answer questions Nature Regarding the causes of various detention.
