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Trump’s AG Pick Pam Bondi Once Called for Deporting Pro-Palestine Student Protesters (truthout.org)

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Pam Bondi’s call for deporting students — regardless of their citizenship status — echoes comments Trump made in May.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

i meeeeean as someone not a US citizen that spends a non-trivial amount of time over there, i believe your bill of rights etc doesn’t apply to us, and if they’re talking about deportation that can only apply to non-citizens

You are wrong because the amendment does apply to some non-citizens and she is also talking about citizens. If you read the first few paragraphs of the article...

Bondi’s comments, which were rediscovered last week, run counter to the freedoms and protections outlined in the First Amendment, which apply to both citizens and temporary residents in the U.S.

“The thing that’s really the most troubling to me [are] these students in universities in our country, whether they’re here as Americans or if they’re here on student visas, and they’re out there saying ‘I support Hamas,'” Bondi, a staunch supporter of Israel, told Newsmax last year, as students across the country were demanding that universities divest from Israel’s indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.