This is about people who don't have the right to be in the United States to begin with
I'm coming with you, don't worry,
We can deny you that visa,
If you actually end up doing that once you're in this country on such a visa, we will revoke it.
They are right to be worried. Some of our faculty members and students who have covered the protests over the Gaza war have been the object of smear campaigns and targeted on the same sites that were used to bring Khalil to the attention of Homeland Security. President Trump has warned that the effort to deport Khalil is just the first of many,
I have those fliers on my desk, they were provided to me by the Department of Homeland Security,
Mahmoud was moved across multiple state lines and subsequently transferred to a remote prison in Louisiana hours after filing his habeas petition, an intentional and retaliatory act and an attempt to interfere with the jurisdiction of the New York court.”
The actions we’ve outlined above jeopardize these principles and therefore the viability of our democracy. All who believe in these freedoms should steadfastly oppose the intimidation, harassment, and detention of individuals on the basis of their speech or their journalism,
All of this talk of flyers is just nonsense, there is no truth to it whatsoever.”
The use of deportation to suppress foreign critics runs parallel to an aggressive campaign to use libel laws in novel — even outlandish ways — to silence or intimidate the independent press,
Meanwhile, the Trump administration insists on hand-picking the journalists who will be permitted to cover the White House and Pentagon, and it has banned the Associated Press from press briefings because the AP is following its own style book and refusing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America,
To frontload [immigrants] as the primary threat to Jewish security is not only morally irresponsible, but dangerous for the Jewish people and for American society,
My committed Jewish faculty colleagues and I have warned that the false characterisation of [Columbia University] as a hotbed of antisemitism would be used as an alibi for what’s actually at stake for the Republican establishment and now the Trump administration: strict control of speech, of protest, and of higher education at large,
Anti-Palestinian organisations were spreading false claims about my husband that were simply not based in reality. They were making threats against Mahmoud and he was so concerned about his safety that he emailed Columbia University on March 7,
There’s an attack on people’s rights with one hand and on their livelihoods with the other,
Of course we are vulnerable. We have a gigantic endowment but we would burn through that endowment in no time flat if federal funds and tuition funds were taken away,
It’s disappointing. There’s obviously a great deal of pressure on them. It’s time to stand up and defend the values of American education, intellectual life, freedom of expression, and not least, the freedom of students and faculty not to be arrested by immigration police,
What we are seeing from the Trump administration, as we’ve been seeing since the inauguration in January, is an attempt to show power and to say that anyone who disagrees with this administration, or who publicly speaks out against this administration, could be targeted,
This administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans."
I understand the immense stress our community is under. Despite the unprecedented challenges, Columbia University will remain a place where the pursuit of knowledge is cherished and fiercely protected, where the rule of law and due process is respected and never taken for granted, and where all members of our community are valued and able to thrive. These are the principles we uphold and that guide us every day."