Fox News: University students, professors fearful deportation threats will chill speech on campus: Report

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University students, professors fearful deportation threats will chill speech on campus: Report

Academics in Chicago worried that the threat of deportations and the Trump administration's crack down on student protesters would chill speech on campus.......                    ...                        ...Students and professors in Chicago are worried that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login's crackdown on antisemitism on college campuses, including the detention and possible deportation of a Columbia University anti-Israel activist, will have a chilling effect on academia. ......"If this campaign of fear (from the Trump administration) were to work, I do wonder who's going to be left to defend critical thinking in American academia," Madalin, an international doctoral student at Northwestern University told The Chicago Tribune.......Local students and professors who spoke to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login were dismayed after Columbia anti-Israel protest ringleader Mahmoud Khalil was arrested last weekend for his involvement in unrest on campus.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Madalin said that the activist's arrest showed how some universities had turned into "collaborators" with the Trump administration and feared her own progressive university could be next......."We will say things like 'at least it's a liberal university; maybe they will manage not to give names to ICE,'" she said in the report. "But if it comes to that — if they are pressured — I wouldn't be shocked if they did. I don't believe in the benevolence of this institution."......Genevieve Lakier, a University of Chicago law professor who also spoke to the Tribune, said she believed Trump's executive actions were unconstitutional, but universities would likely feel pressured to crack down on student protests.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"If you're deporting people because you don't like the protests that they engage in, that is classic viewpoint discrimination," Lakier said....... "We have no idea where we're headed, but it's possible to imagine a world in which maybe very few students actually are deported, but there's a lot of publicity around the few who are or whose visa status is challenged," she added. "That instills fear in everybody else. I think it's important to not only think about how many people are kicked out of the country, but the clear aim to affect what happens inside the country in an ongoing way."......Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism on college campuses and has warned foreign students in the U.S. that are sympathetic to Hamas that they may be deported......."We will find, apprehend and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again," Trump You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on Monday in an announcement of Khalil's arrest. "If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests and you are not welcome here."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Khalil, who was born You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to Palestinian parents, was granted a student visa to enter the U.S. to attend Columbia in 2022. He has since obtained a green card and is married to an American citizen who is reportedly eight months pregnant. ......"Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization," the Department of Homeland Security You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ......Federal Judge Jesse M. Furman ordered Monday that Khalil not be deported while the court considers a legal challenge brought by his lawyers.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login groups and other civil rights organizations have criticized Khalil's detention as a violation of his First Amendment rights to freedom of expression, saying that the Trump administration is seeking to curb speech it disagrees with......."This is America. We don't throw people in detention centers because of their politics. Doing so betrays our national commitment to freedom of speech," the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginsaid in a statement.......Secretary of State Marco Rubio You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Khalil's arrest, saying the U.S. should not be granting visas to Hamas sympathizers......."This is not about free speech," Rubio told You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on Wednesday. "This is about people who do not have a right to be in the United States to begin with. No one has a right to a student visa. No one has a right to a green card by the way."......Fox News' Landon Mion and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report....

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