A couple of notes here.
So this is another high-profile foreign student being detained. Her profile being associated with the divestment (in Israel) movement et. al.
She was detained, walking alone down the street, going to attend a dinner, by six, plain-clothes officers, wearing full facemasks, who did not identify as law enforcement until she was on the ground.
She was immediately moved out of state, from Massachusetts to Louisiana.
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My comments
While I think, irrespective of one's take on matters middle east, her time was wasted advocating for something that even if she achieved it would have made no difference.....
It is nonetheless expressly her right, not only to hold such views, but express them. The U.S. Supreme Court has, in the past, held that First Amendment rights in the U.S. apply to non-citizens legally in the United States.
Two, I am never comfortable with non-uniformed law enforcement making arrests, even if those arrests were otherwise lawful, unless there are exigent circumstances. Even then.....what's the deal with full face coverings? I can't fathom any moral or lawful excuse. Had she resisted violently, I think she would have been within her rights to do so. Not that that was advisable in the circumstances.
Finally, the quick move to shift her out of State was to remove her both from legal oversight, (a judge ordered that ICE not remove her, but she was already gone), and to remove her from her support network and lawyer.
This last bit is incredibly problematic. Its clearly an intentional move to thwart due process.
If the U.S. wanted to revoke her VISA, that may have been lawful; however she ought to get due process, in open court, and be given a summons to appear, not faced with what reads as black ops abduction.
