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.
https://apnews.com/video/turkish-student-at-tufts-university-detained-video-shows-masked-people-handcuffing-her-109ae65a4e734b12b357897376ea443b
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.
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj
She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.
This is the new America.
Citizens are next.
@ryansingel@writing.exchange
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.
"detained" sounds too passive. Like she was accidentally encountered, there was a problem, and she was detained.
This was a targeted kidnapping.
