Immigration

Ezekiel Kweku, NY Times  -  A main feature of Trump’s second term has been his aggressive, morally deplorable, sometimes legally dubious deportation and detention strategy. My colleague Lydia Polgreen argues that this strategy isn’t delivering what Americans want and that it risks turning America into a place people don’t want to come to. For international students already here, it’s created an atmosphere of fear on campus, a current professor and a retired professor from Cornell University write in a guest essay.

One case that looms large here is that of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student from Turkey who was arrested on the street by plainclothes government agents, apparently over an opinion essay about Gaza in the school newspaper. Senator Ed Markey and Representatives Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts write in a guest essay about visiting Ozturk in a detention facility in Louisiana and call for her release.

Other members of Congress have tried to visit Andry Hernández Romero, a Venezuelan makeup artist the administration sent to prison in El Salvador, but they failed to find proof of life. My colleague Michelle Goldberg argues that rescuing people like him is a “moral imperative.”