When I came to study in the United States, the terrifying spacter of the deportation was the last thing in my mind.
As a Brit – “First World” civilians – I was the “special relationship” beneficiary in the US and the United Kingdom.
As terrible was, the shelter in Mexico or Haiti was expelled, in which the world has gone away from the snowy hills in New York, where I study. Or so I thought.
In January, while I was teaching a class on African American literature, I received a text message that pushed me to the window to endanger the road below.
Agents in emigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) were spotted to raid at Downtown Ethka. I was afraid of fear: The next day, President Donald Trump signed the executive order who was asking the agencies to think about the deportation of foreign students, who had disciplined action on Palestine like me.
In this order, the universities need to “monitor and report the activities by allergic students and employees” and urged the Education Secretary to list the court list and the list of alleged disciplines against semeatism in the universities.
Antiveer protests on US campus last year, Trump said in the White House To the factT: “We pointed to all the residents of Jihadist supporters in protest:” We will find you: We will find you and we will deport you. “
Then Trump’s words have become real. On Saturday night, the ICE immigration agents arrested Palestine Mahmood Khalil, who led the camp at the University of Colombia and transferred it to a possession facility in Luziana, a thousand miles from his pregnant wife in New York city. As a permanent resident of the green card, his condition was very low for its protection.
Universities took universal steps to punish the students for peaceful activism against the Israeli war in Gaza and paved the way of Trump’s order and now the raids started.
These organizations have a thorn in the street: they can comply with the order and complications in the action of dissatisfaction, or they can stand in the trump and their threat clan, protect their students, and speed their mentioned values of freedom of expression.
Universities must first show whether they are for repair.
On September 224, I was suspended after the Career Fair students were taken into custody, in which Boeing and Lar Harris – companies that have provided some weapons to Israel, which carried out their war on the Palestine population – have been described as a genocide.
100 or more students who participated in the protest included in the previous actions, including a large camp in two weeks, and the business of large educational buildings.
But while walking unprecedented, Cornell outlined 15 of us for suspension, mainly black, Muslim, Arab and Jewish students.
Four of us have international students and may face the deportation. In addition, the Canadian Arab student Bianka wakes up.
During the subsequent disciplinary action, there was no suggestion that my actions were semetic or violent in any way, but I was removed from the campus and did not visit my educational department.
While I was living in a private residence on the campus, I was kept in custody for a month before picking up my suspension.
All of this about taking a stand against the destruction of innocent people.
Still, I was one of the lucky ones.
Four students arrested the campus police for pushing and resisting the officers of the officers; The fee of the three of them will be either released or the period will be pending without further charges.
At least one student was removed from the campus residence, while others were prevented from going to the campus or going to Muslim prayers.
In a hi-profile HairBritish student Momodo Tal was suspended and threatened to deport.
Expert Trump’s presidency has warned that Gaza is aimed at using the Gaza protest as a means of giving a comprehensive “war” against the progressive ideas in the United States universities.
And that is why we have left the door open to run the rioters of Trump’s book-burning rebels by punishing us in such a way.
The suspension is embarrassing for an organization that proud of themselves on the freedom of expression and the legacy of students’ protests. Indeed, freedom of expression was 2023-2024 the theme of the university.
Interestingly, while punishing us for the career fair, the university is still proud of his progressive history on his website, which includes the Wild Strate Hall Takeover of the WILL, in which black students were occupied on campus, protesting the organizational racism. On that occasion, Cornell was ready to meet some of his students’ demands, and the first African study department in the United States opened.
During the main lecture of the prestigious activist and educational Angela Davis, the level of censorship at the university became a matter of public scuffle on February 3.
Davis was identified by Dean, the most senior black administrator of Cornell, Marla Love, who overseeed my suspension and banning department.
Underlined the work of Davis, “challenging today’s injustice”, Dr. Martin Luther King’s bills for the handling of “war and military, imperialism, human global grief and government oppression of power”. Davis did the same: not only in the expectation of the university leadership, but she challenged injustice.
“From him (Dr. Martin Luther King) we learned about the intention of justice. It is not possible to call some people for justice and leave others out of the judiciary, “said the subject before going out.
Davis said, “I realize that I cannot attend this evening because they have been removed from the community because of their efforts to criticize the anti -democratic forces in the state of Israel,” Davis said.
During the Question-Uttar Session, Davis discussion, a graduate student, revealed that the university had forbidden them about the censorship in the campus about Palestine or irony. They did so.
Davis played her iconic gray Afro after laser, and asked: “So he gave a list of topics that he didn’t want to talk about?”
She said, “It is really terrible.
Davis discussion has welcomed student activists welcomed, but it will do a little bit of the risk of being deported on our head.
Cornell should assure you that they will not work with the Immigration Officer and the Homeland Security Department to remove us. Cracking legal protests and differences will not be obtained anywhere. This has not already been received by Colombia.
Last week, the Trump administration withdrew M400 meters in federal grant from the University of Colombia For Suppose semeatism and “illegal protests” have failed to be. This is the university who called the Palestinian supporters in the NYPD to clean the camp in the late April 224. The raid, in which more than 100 people were arrested and many were beaten up, the then president, Mino’s Shafiq came a few days later. Promise She criticized a powerful Congress Committee to intensify Colombia’s action against students protesting.
All of this is amazingly amazing because, “this is America”, this country, which indicates a hit childish gambin song, is implementing a system of systemic ethnic violence and pressure.
As non-Citizens Black Muslims, Tal and I fall on the intersection of the thorough history of Zenophobia, the aftermath of the US black-black, 9/11, Islamophobia and now the resurrected Zenophobia.
Unless Cornell takes a strong role, it is unclear whether our British passport will save you.
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