In a horrific display of authoritarianism and fascism, two days ago US immigration authorities literally abducted Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s off the streets of Boston in handcuffs.
This is not America.
Rumeysa Ozturk was not a threat, nor has she broken any laws to warrant such a show of force with agents wearing balaclava-like masks to cover up their faces. This is something we would see in Putin’s Russia.
Then the Trump administration lies began to flow:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on X authorities determined Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.”
“A visa is a privilege, not a right,” McLaughlin said. She did not specify what specific activities were engaged in by Ozturk, a Fulbright Scholar and student in Tufts’ doctoral program for Child Study and Human Development who had been in the country on an F-1 visa to study.
What activities did Ozturk engage in? Having an opinion not in line with the MAGA cult.
