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April 25, 2025 
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By David Swerdlick Senior Staff Editor |
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Almost a year ago, speaking to a group of wealthy donors about international students involved in protests against the Israel-Hamas war, Donald Trump reportedly said, “One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country.”
As he has with so many other statements that so many voters seemed to dismiss as hyperbole, Trump appears to be trying to make good on that promise in his second term as president — due process be damned.
That, argue Senator Edward Markey, Representative Jim McGovern and Representative Ayanna Pressley in a guest essay, is what is going on in the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts University who had a valid student visa and was grabbed off the street last month by agents of the Department of Homeland Security and eventually taken to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana.
In the midst of the legal fight over Ozturk’s detention, these three members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation traveled to the ICE facility to speak to her. In their essay, they recount what they saw and sound the alarm about what the administration’s actions mean for Americans — not just for citizens of other countries who are visiting, studying or permanently residing in the country.
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