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Well, it has happened again.

Another college student who supported Palestine on campus has been accosted and detained for deportation by federal agents allegedly for being, quote, engaged in support of Hamas, unquote, but with no evidence to that effect being

released or cited by administration officials. This arrest in Somerville, Massachusetts,

is drawing particular outrage after it was recorded on a security camera in a video that has now

gone viral on the internet. I'm sure some of you have seen it. As Trump and

others cracked down on protesters wearing masks to conceal their identities, the agents in the video

did exactly that themselves, even though they are government officials employed by the public.

The student this time is identified as a 30-year-old Fulbright scholar at Tufts University, which is in Medford

Mass, a little north of Boston. She's a doctoral student in child study and human development

named Ramisa Oz Turk. According to the Boston Globe, she was not known as an outspoken

protest leader on campus. She did co-author an op-ed in the student

newspaper a year ago in which she identified as a, quote, graduate student for Palestine and called

on the school to, quote, divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.

The Globe notes that the op-ed makes no mention of Hamas. Here is Secretary of State

Marco Rubio yesterday defending the detention. We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree,

not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses. And if we've given you a visa,

and then you decide to do that,

we're going to take it away. I encourage every country to do that, by the way, because I think

it's crazy to invite students into your country that are coming onto your campus and destabilizing

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