Comment by jakelazaroff
1 day ago
What could the technicality possibly be? They explicitly said they deported him due to his speech! This is like the most egregious possible violation of the First Amendment. The police literally — in the fashion of a cartoon villain revealing their dastardly plot — copped to breaking the law.
What the police did here doesn't hold up to even the most stringent possible definition of "freedom of speech", and it's also obviously unconstitutional. And there are still people trying to defend it. I'm honestly a little flabbergasted.
As I read it, he was trying to enter the US from elsewhere and was denied entry at the border. Perhaps his student visa had been cancelled due to clearly getting involved with unrelated stuff.
We don't need to entertain "perhaps this happened because X Y and Z" fantasy scenarios, because we know why it happened. From the thread:
> They just came out and said it:
> “We both know why you’ve been detained…it’s because of what you wrote about the protests at Columbia”
https://bsky.app/profile/alistairkitchen.bsky.social/post/3l...
Yes, he basically overstepped his student visa. I'm not trying to keep it secret here :).
You want foreign protesters in your country?
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