Student visas have no standing. If she or anyone on a student visa becomes an unpleasant guest in our country then it is completely within the rights of the State Dept to revoke the visa. Buh bye.
Student visas have no standing. If she or anyone on a student visa becomes an unpleasant guest in our country then it is completely within the rights of the State Dept to revoke the visa. Buh bye.
This timeline does not provide any of the necessary information to determine whether her limited rights under immigration law or the First Amendment were violated. I don’t see the detention warrant linked here or the specific facts that triggered the INS action. Nothing but speculation and the same NGOs and usual cast of characters pitching a fit. She will receive all due process accorded to the law and the lawful outcome will be determined.
The underlying issue here is that the public outrage machine goes into high gear over THIS particular individual. If you live in any urban or suburban area in the country there are massive injustices occurring to American citizens every day within a mile of your home. Why are the job prospects of young working class people, particularly young men without college degrees so limited, and yet if you go to ANY construction site the only language being spoken is Spanish? Why are so many working age Americans “not in the workforce” and so not counted in government unemployment statistics? Why are there so many people on Social Security Disability and the numbers rising? Why are so many people addicted to deadly drugs imported from our southern neighbors and living in squalor or in tents on the streets? I see lots of injustice all around me, and the very last thing on my radar is some entitled grad student from Turkey getting their student visa revoked.
This is just another contrived story to get latent lefties excited and suddenly screaming about constitutional rights, the same very rights they consistently ignored for the last four years. I don’t care about this person at all and it’s disappointing to see Racket wasting time on this story. Let’s talk about what the hell is happening to Americans and leave this trivia political narrative to NYT and WAPO.
"I don’t care about this person at all and it’s disappointing to see Racket wasting time on this story."
...do you count yourself a critic of 'leftist cancel culture'?
Because you either care about both or you don't care about both. It is incoherent to care about one and not the other.
Thence, if you've spent any appreciable amount of time criticizing 'cancel culture', and you do not care about what has happened to this person for peacefully speaking her mind, it is clear you had ulterior motives in your criticisms...just as the left claims the critics of cancel culture do.
Like most everyone else's commentary here, that first paragraph focuses entirely on whether what has happened here is *legally permissible*, in order to avoid the question of whether it is ethically defensible.
Canceling someone on social media is legally permissible, too. Are you saying you do not therefore care about it, and do not find it ethically questionable? And if you don't, why was cancel culture ever a concern of yours in the first place?
Student visas have no standing. If she or anyone on a student visa becomes an unpleasant guest in our country then it is completely within the rights of the State Dept to revoke the visa. Buh bye.
This timeline does not provide any of the necessary information to determine whether her limited rights under immigration law or the First Amendment were violated. I don’t see the detention warrant linked here or the specific facts that triggered the INS action. Nothing but speculation and the same NGOs and usual cast of characters pitching a fit. She will receive all due process accorded to the law and the lawful outcome will be determined.
The underlying issue here is that the public outrage machine goes into high gear over THIS particular individual. If you live in any urban or suburban area in the country there are massive injustices occurring to American citizens every day within a mile of your home. Why are the job prospects of young working class people, particularly young men without college degrees so limited, and yet if you go to ANY construction site the only language being spoken is Spanish? Why are so many working age Americans “not in the workforce” and so not counted in government unemployment statistics? Why are there so many people on Social Security Disability and the numbers rising? Why are so many people addicted to deadly drugs imported from our southern neighbors and living in squalor or in tents on the streets? I see lots of injustice all around me, and the very last thing on my radar is some entitled grad student from Turkey getting their student visa revoked.
This is just another contrived story to get latent lefties excited and suddenly screaming about constitutional rights, the same very rights they consistently ignored for the last four years. I don’t care about this person at all and it’s disappointing to see Racket wasting time on this story. Let’s talk about what the hell is happening to Americans and leave this trivia political narrative to NYT and WAPO.
"I don’t care about this person at all and it’s disappointing to see Racket wasting time on this story."
...do you count yourself a critic of 'leftist cancel culture'?
Because you either care about both or you don't care about both. It is incoherent to care about one and not the other.
Thence, if you've spent any appreciable amount of time criticizing 'cancel culture', and you do not care about what has happened to this person for peacefully speaking her mind, it is clear you had ulterior motives in your criticisms...just as the left claims the critics of cancel culture do.
Reread the first paragraph.
Like most everyone else's commentary here, that first paragraph focuses entirely on whether what has happened here is *legally permissible*, in order to avoid the question of whether it is ethically defensible.
Canceling someone on social media is legally permissible, too. Are you saying you do not therefore care about it, and do not find it ethically questionable? And if you don't, why was cancel culture ever a concern of yours in the first place?
Update:
State Department Finds No Evidence Linking Tufts Student to Antisemitism
https://www.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/1jz2mm9/no_evidence_linking_tufts_student_to_antisemitism/