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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

‘This shouldn’t happen in a democracy’: Trump tries to arrest academic suing administration over antisemitism executive order

Immigration officials may arrest and begin the deportation process against a Cornell PhD student who is in the middle of a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive orders cracking down on pro-Palestinian protesters.

His attorneys say the situation is an alarming violation of constitutional rights and normal court process, where a critic of the administration may be taken out of the country before his day in court.

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