A Tufts University student from Turkiye who was held for over six weeks in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana after co-writing an opinion piece criticising her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza was released from custody on May 9 after a federal judge granted her bail.
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00:00I really appreciate your being here and thank you so much for all the sport and love.
00:28I am a little bit tired, so I will take some rest, but I really appreciate you being here.
00:35I think that's not what she said. The point is she has the right to express that opinion.
00:41And so I'm just so, so, so excited and I'm going to do a quick exam, make sure that she is doing all right,
00:47and then we're going to get her home, back to our home of Boston.
00:49There's a judicial coup in this country. The foreigners in this country do not have a right to stay in this country if they support designated terrorist organizations.
01:07The Secretary of State has the absolute authority under statute, which again is not judicially reviewable,
01:12to revoke an immigration benefit or visa and then to pursue a deportation of the Department of Homeland Security.
01:18We cannot individually litigate in court every single visa that we want to revoke.
01:22This is a plenary authority of the executive branch. And I would just say that, look at a, what it really comes down to is this.
01:30The American people voted for President Trump in large part to seal the border, deport the illegals, fix their immigration system,
01:39so it serves America's interests, and remove the people from this country that we don't want here,
01:43because they threaten our national security, our public safety, or our economic security.
01:48That is what he was elected to do. It's what the Constitution empowers him to do.
01:52And this judicial coup by a handful of Marxist judges to frustrate that effort can only be understood as an attack on democracy.