Ryan Singel

@ryansingel@writing.exchange

It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.

Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
apnews.com/video/turkish-stude

It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.

tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03

She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.

This is the new America.

Citizens are next.

March 26, 2025 at 11:16:40 PM
(Edited)

Turns out, according to the NYT, the Trump administration is trying to use the same unconstitutional provision it is using vs Mahmoud Khalil.

"Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security, said that Ms. Ozturk was detained under a rarely used provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which the administration is also using to try to deport Mr. Khalil."

In that case, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to legally personally sign off on this arrest.

google.com/amp/s/constitutionc

Citizens ARE next.

That’s not alarmism. We have to confront what is entirely predictable.

@pikurasa @ryansingel And they have chosen to cover their faces. They know full well how this looks

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