A Columbia University activist with a green card, a Georgetown University academic with a student visa, a Brown University kidney transplant specialist with a work visa: They are among the people who, despite having legal permission to be in the US, have recently been detained by immigration authorities or denied entry to the US at airports.
President Donald Trump has said he supports legal immigration, and administration officials have given assurances that Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportations would focus on people who have committed violent crimes. But some of the highest-profile examples of attempted deportations are people who have legal permission to be in the US.
