
Trump sent masked law enforcement officers to arrest Rumeysa Ozturk — a Tufts University grad student with legal status — without a criminal charge.
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Trump sent masked law enforcement officers to arrest Rumeysa Ozturk — a Tufts University grad student with legal status — without a criminal charge.

Disappearances like these are part of Trump’s all-out assault on our basic freedoms. This is authoritarianism, and we will not let this stand.

She must be immediately released. And we won’t stand by while the Trump Administration continues to abduct students with legal status and attack our fundamental freedoms.

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties.

Billionaire co-presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk are taking a chainsaw to public schools because it’s not their kids who will suffer the consequences.

The Trump administration is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process.

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Madam Speaker, I rise to call out the recklessness of those in this administration entrusted with our national security. I did not think I would see a day where someone with the highest security clearance is using a phone messaging app to…

Rumeysa Ozturk was kidnapped in plain sight and sent to Louisiana.

And it blows into the lungs of the people in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. I yield to the Senator from Connecticut.

This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

Mr. President, before I begin my remarks, I want to take a few minutes to thank Bob Nelson, the Small Business Administration's District Director for Massachusetts upon his retirement on Monday after 30 years of Federal service. Bob is a…

What does that mean by ``downwind,'' just so people can understand it? What do you mean by that?

It's a very bad thing for the economy if foreign students are afraid to come and study and live here and contribute.