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This story appeared in log off, a A daily newsletter that will help you stay informed about the Trump administration without taking over your life in political news. Subscribe here.Welcome to logoff: Today, I focus on the Trump administration's attempts to deport foreign students without trial.Why is the administration trying to deport Ozturk? So far, the administration has not indicted Oztalk any crimes and has provided no evidence that she engaged in criminal acts.Last year, Ozturk co-authored the OP-ED in Tufts' Student Newspaper, which criticized Israel's actions in Gaza. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that she had revoked…

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At about 5:15pm on Tuesday, the man in a black hoodie stopped a Tufts graduate student, Lu Mesaozturk, on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. She tried to pass by but he grabbed her. She cried, and it seemed that help had arrived.However, the masked newcomer was actually there to help her assailant. They took off their Ozturk backpacks and seized their phones. The hooded man put her in handcuffs. “We are the police,” they told her.”You don't look like that,” replied the obvious bystander. “Why are you hiding your face?”Ozturk, a Turkish citizen on a student visa, is currently being…

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On Wednesday, masked Plain Cross immigration officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen on a student visa outside Tufts University, where he earned his PhD. The video of her arrest, showing her being filmed while walking down the street, is now viral. Ozturk is currently being held at the Louisiana Detention Center. This comes after a series of similar actions by the federal government. Just two days ago, Yoon Zeo Chung, a 21-year-old Colombian student and green cardholder who had been living in the United States since she was seven, sued the Trump administration for arresting her and attempting to…

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Last week, the USDA announced a sweep plan to speed up the genocide line with pork and poultry plants. Poultry plant workers don't actually kill chickens – the task is automated with what is called the visceral belt, a conveyor belt that kills chickens and removes organs. The chicken corpses then move to another part of the plant, where workers in cramped and cold state cut them out and handle dozens of birds per minute to be packed into supermarkets and restaurants. Pork plants can currently operate with up to 1,106 pigs per hour.For decades, the meat industry has hoped…

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President Donald Trump is not a fan of judges who oppose him. During his first term he attacked the famous Judge Amy Berman Jackson. Amy Berman Jackson declared his ally and advisor, Roger Stone.Now, Trump just ratcheted his attack on the judge. The feud reached a new high water mark after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to halt the deportation of certain Venezuelan immigrants. Boasberg also forced the administration on the timing of a flight from the US to El Salvador, where immigrants were transferred to mega prisons.In response, Trump called Boasberg “a radical left-madman of…

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By withholding federal funds and threatening investigations, President Donald Trump attempted to succumb to his will.Now he's doing the same thing. They are trying to force the nation to change election rules.In Tuesday's executive order, Trump created what constitutes a series of demands on states to change election laws and policies. For one thing, he hopes that the state will become more strict by demanding evidence of citizenship for voter registration. Trump also hopes the nation will stop counting the number of mail-order tickets sent before Election Day but have since arrived. In fact, he suggests that counting such votes…

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This story originally appeared Today's kidsVox newsletter about children. For future editions, please sign up here.Over the next few weeks, millions of children across the country will be back home from school, throwing their backpacks in the corner, launching an annual ritual where they can be fun, relaxed, stressful, and confused at the same time.Of course, I'll talk about spring break. This is a phrase that meant something completely different for college students historically bound to the beach, and for families of young children who face a week (or sometimes two) when schools are closed and jobs are clearly not.Summer…

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These are times of uncertainty for many immigrants in the United States. There are reports of individual visas and green cardholders and tourists who have been detained and deported. However, the Trump administration does not appear to be indiscriminately targeting legal immigrants who have permission to stay in the US on a large scale. Some are reportedly targeted based on their political activities. The brown university professor and doctor with a green card were deported after finding photos of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrara and Iran's top leader on his mobile phone. Immigration authorities also called Trump's executive order banning…

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A screensaver with a bizarre and charming cityscape, the city of roku involves millions of idol televisions every day. Recently, the island paradise has appeared in photos. In the foreground, Floating Billboard invited me to subscribe to Disney+ and watch Moana 2 Press the button on my remote. Convenience, I don't mind about the new era supported by advertising. A eavesdropping, I will.The ads are clearly not new on television. As far as we watch the show in the sparkling box, we've seen commercials that provide the economic engine for the entire entertainment factory to run. The streaming platform provided…

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Your mileage may vary This is an advice column that provides a new framework for thinking through your ethical dilemma and philosophical questions. To submit your questions, please email sigal at [email protected] or fill out this anonymous form. Either way, if we choose your question, it will be anonymized. This is this week's question. I am sure the battle against authoritarianism is the most important issue of our time. My family moved to the US from an authoritarian country. My relatives and I are shocked and terrified that the same thing is falling for the United States. There is more…

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