| Friend, Mahmoud Khalil. Rumeysa Ozturk. Yunseo Chung. These are the names of just 3 of the students who have been illegally abducted from their homes and off the street and jailed for deportation by ICE for expressing pro-Palestinian views.(1) This is not immigration enforcement, it is political punishment and an assault on all of our rights and freedoms. These students joined legal, peaceful protests in order to express their views. And now, the Trump administration is trying to deport them, despite failure to prove that they have broken any laws.(2)
The Trump administration is claiming that this is part of its effort to fight antisemitism.(3) But a growing number of Jewish groups have called out the administration for exploiting the problem of antisemitism for its own political purposes and condemned these arrests as a dangerous attack on constitutional rights that undermine all of our safety.(4) And the Trump administration isn't stopping with these students -- Trump has already floated the idea of deporting American citizens.(5) Congress must take action to protect all Americans now, before it’s too late. That’s why we’re calling on Congress to:
Thank you for being in the fight! –Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Cecilia, Jen, and Lindsay (the Courage team)
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