Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers

Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers

On March 9, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, sent an anxious text message to Najiba Akbar, the university’s former Muslim chaplain, with whom she had become close. “I recently learned that someone added all my information to a doxxing website called Canary Mission because of the op-ed published last March,” Ms. … Read more

What to Know About Crossing the U.S. Border as an International Visitor

What to Know About Crossing the U.S. Border as an International Visitor

In recent weeks, a flurry of international visitors attempting to enter the United States from other countries have been denied entry at border checkpoints, leading to either deportations to their home countries or days or weeks of detention. A 28-year-old British woman arrived in Britain earlier this week after she was held at an immigration … Read more

Trump Invokes the Alien Enemies Act, a Wartime Law, to Deport Venezuelans

Trump Invokes the Alien Enemies Act, a Wartime Law, to Deport Venezuelans

President Trump on Saturday issued an executive order to deport Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a rarely used wartime law that could allow removals with little due process. The order declares that Venezuelans who are at least 14 years old, in the United States without authorization and part of the … Read more