Recommendations of the Editorial team
Donald Trump’s US immigration and customs authority (ICE) proudly announced that it will stop everything that illegally crosses the border. This includes people, money, products. And … ideas?
In contributions that were published on Thursday on X and Instagram – and later deleted – explained ICEthat they would stop all “ideas” who try to “illegally” enter the USA. What idea is de facto illegal in the United States? No. But the Trump government has not prevented this from targeting more and more people based on their ideology and political beliefs. And to detain and deport them.
The US government is authorized to refuse travelers and applicants. For example, if there are concerns about national security or there are connections to criminal organizations. The Immigration and Nationality Act from 1990 However, effortsto prohibit the refusal of entering visitors and migrants only on the basis of political or ideological beliefs. Although the officers of the immigration authority are still a large scope for discretion have. You can refuse to enter the United States.
Over 300 students and academics threatened by an expulsion due to their political ideology
Mike Alvarez, a spokesman for ICE, told Rolling Stone that the contribution “was sent without proper approval and should not have been shared”. And added that “ideas” should have been better described as “intellectual property”.
Regardless of this, the contributions were caused by the reason if you consider that ICE and the Trump administration apparently act hard against people, express the views that do not match those of the president.
The Trump government has been arrested and deported for weeks. Because they took part in pro-Palestinian protests. Including many Students and teachers at renowned American universities. According to Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, there are currently over 300 students and academics threatened by an expulsion due to their political ideology.
The Associated Press received on Thursday A memothat was signed by Rubio. Trump’s authority to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a legal inhabitant and demonstrator from Columbia University, presented. The government had tried to deport it without proper procedure. It is still in ICE custody without being charged. In the memo, no criminal behavior was claimed by Khalil. Instead, Rubio wrote that his further presence in the United States “may have serious disadvantageous foreign policy consequences and that the United States would endanger a mandatory policy interest”.
“Anti -Semitic activities”
Early this week gave the Department of Homeland Security (Dhs), which is supervised, known, known, that The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin to monitor social media from non-state citizens to “anti-Semitic activities”.
“Uscis will indicate that a foreigner supports, supports, supports, promotes or supports, supports, promotes or supports, supports, promotes or supports, as a negative factor in any discretion analysis of USCIs,” says this in an immediate effect, ” Announcement of the DHS.
In view of the most recent measures by the Trump government, the activities that obviously justify imprisonment and deportation are also protests against human rights violations by the Israeli military.
“Characteristics of fascism and tyranny”
In a statement opposite Rolling Stone Sean Vitka, Managing Director of the Demand Progress Education Fund: “Ideas cannot be illegal in a free society. And threats that are based on them are a license plate of fascism and tyranny. This is one of the clearest examples of how Trump and its allies deliberately restrict the expression. The goal is to make people afraid. And our constitutional and human rights are to undermine at the most basic level. “
“The US immigration and customs authority (ICE) is not a thought police. Should never be one. But they want to make us believe that they are,” added Vitka. “Currently, ICE is more dangerous for people in the United States than the ideas that it is supposed to monitor it.”