Immigration officials deported a Palestinian Harvard freshman on Friday after an agent allegedly screamed at him about his friends’ political social media posts.
Harvard spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain told the Crimson that the school is “working closely with the student’s family and appropriate authorities to resolve this matter so that he can join his classmates in the coming days.”
Good fucking luck with that.
That’s true. The customs area at our airports are Constitution-free zones. You have no rights.
Basically true and absolutely shameful.
But with Fat Hitler at the very top, of course loyal brownshirts feel empowered to act.
Brilliant. Not content with a home grown brain drain, our stable genius president is now working on draining off the kind of immigrants everybody said they wanted - the kind who can get into Harvard.
CBP, ICE, only the best.
Even American citizens have no rights until one clears customs. I’ve had to deal with idiot border people in the past. They have power, you do not.
Within 100 mile-zone of ports of entry.
Live near an external border?
The majority of America does, yes. But, of course, we’re not the real 'merka…
Me: This has long since gotten out of control
Brainwashed right: But illegal immigrants are breaking the lawwwwwwwwwww.
That young man was apparently responsible for the thoughts and feelings of his friends back home according to CBP/ICE. He didn’t tell them what they were supposed to believe. And that got him deported. Now that is flimsy but typical. After all we cannot have any intelligent folk attending college here, now, can we?
Soooo many little Eichmanns…
No, but association with people can be enough.
Americans get denied Security Clearances for knowing the “wrong” people, so this sort of thing is rather more common.
I’d like to see more than just one side of the story here. It’s also quite possible that some of those friends appear on other lists that the government has.
In which case he’d be smart to make new friends if he wants to be welcome in America.
Not true!
There was nothing illegal about this Harvard freshman. He had a legal visa to be here. He followed the rules. That federal agent didn’t like him, so she moved the goalposts, and unilaterally declared his presence in this country to be illegal, Or in her words, she personally found him “inadmissible”, based on what his friends (not him) had said on social media. If there was anything illegal in this matter, it was her actions against him.
Wait, you are saying Constitutional rights don’t apply within 100 miles of a border? Do I have that right?
I beg to differ. The residents of San Diego and Los Angeles, Seattle, several other cities and towns and here in Tucson would differ as well.
The ACLU’s take on it:
You have some rights. If you are an American citizen, you cannot be kept out of the country.
If the social media posts had been racist posts supporting Trump, he’d be welcomed.
Steve King is at again:
At the Iowa state fair you can get a pork chop on a stick and meet Steve King, a/k/a … a pork chop on a dick.
Welcome to the United States of the GOP.