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He is widely known in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, where he has been based since moving to the United States more than a decade ago, as a spiritual man who grew up Muslim, a practicing Buddhist, and whose closest friends are Jewish.

Reader Comments: First they came for Kilmar; We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid; New Resource: Immigrants And the Economy; Lots of Cartoons as we struggle to make the world better; and more

Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement. Or else grovel before a mafia boss.

If due process is of no moment, then the government could snatch any American citizen off the street, falsely accuse them of being a “criminal alien,” ship them to an overseas prison, then disavow any responsibility to bring them back

Rumeysa Ozturk and John Peter Zenger are book ends to the history of the First Amendment — the one that guarantees freedom of speech, association, religion, the right to petition for redress of grievances and freedom of the press.

Radical labor leader Harry Bridges successfully fought the government's attempt to deport him. In the Bridges case, the Supreme Court held that noncitizens enjoyed the same First Amendments rights as everyone else.

Reader Comments: All Out for April 5th - Hands Off!; Thousands Protest ICE Abductions; Trump Signs Order Ending Union Bargaining Rights for Federal Employees; The New Definition of Antisemitism; Public Sector Labor Struggles, Then and Now; and more..

The legal profession cannot afford to remain silent. Lawyers — especially those in positions of influence — have a responsibility to represent those being victimized and to speak up. Not to accommodate.

The targeting of foreign students at Columbia, Tufts, Georgetown, and other universities has led to outcry among academics, particularly as the ICE abductions have taken place alongside threats from the Trump administration to pull funding...

Reader Comments: Latest Trump Shit Show and War Crimes Made Public; Resistance Alive, Growing; Bernie-AOC Anti-Oligarchy Tour; ICE Abductions; Trump’s Anti-Voter Executive Order; Massive Palestinian Demonstrations for Peace Against Israel and Hamas;