Ezekiel Kweku, NY Times - The Trump administration announced that it is canceling $400 million in grants and contracts with Columbia University over what it described as the university’s failure to protect Jewish students during last fall’s protests about Gaza. The extraordinary step comes as the administration moves to deport a leader of those protests, Mahmoud Khalil, who graduated from Columbia last year and is a U.S. permanent resident. Khalil has not been charged with any particular crime, but the administration intends to deport him under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that it says gives the secretary of state the authority to deport even green-card holders whose presence would have an adverse effect on foreign policy...
My colleague Michelle Goldberg called it “the greatest threat to free speech since the Red Scare,” arguing that the justification for deporting Khalil is impossibly vague and legally meaningless; my colleague James Robinson makes the case in a TikTok that the arrest is an authoritarian power grab. For The Point, Times Opinion’s blog, my colleague Lydia Polgreen emphasized the chilling effects on the speech of permanent residents more broadly. Also for The Point, my colleague David Wallace-Wells argued that since Columbia’s attempts to quash the protests were already draconian, the Trump administration is essentially punishing the university for having students who were inclined to protest....
The Trump administration has reportedly signaled that arrests at other schools could be on the way, and has also circulated a list of nine more schools it could withdraw money from.
“Is it Constitutional to Deport Immigrants for Political Speech?” and “Mahmoud Khalil Is an Easy Call” at Reason; “Five Things to Remember as the Mahmoud Khalil Case Develops,” by Greg Lukianoff and Robert Shibley; “Trump Is Cracking Down on Universities. Florida Had a Head Start,” by Douglas Belkin at The Wall Street Journal; “College Presidents on Trump, Tuition and Universities Under Pressure,” from Bloomberg Businessweek
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