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Trump's Deportations Are A Major Assault On Free Expression

Trump's Deportations Are A Major Assault On Free Expression

If the UK adopted similar policies, I would be deported

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I’m currently in the United Kingdom for a year, studying abroad. I’m a legal immigrant—and not one of the ones UK citizens are alarmed by because they bring Shariah law or whatever. Recently, the Trump administration has been deporting people for speech critical of Israel, including for writing innocuous op-eds in their school’s paper. For those defending Trump’s deportation of people on student visas who have merely criticized Israel, I have a question: would it be permissible for the UK to deport me?

You see, I think lots of things that would be quite unsettling to the British government. Specifically…

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