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Guest Essay

By Dara Lind

Ms. Lind is a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council.

The Trump administration is often most shocking when it disregards rights many Americans have blithely assumed to be universal. Of course you can’t be punished for writing an opinion essay, because the United States has freedom of speech — except the Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested by masked agents in broad daylight after adding her name to an opinion essay for the student paper. Of course you can’t be imprisoned indefinitely or banished without trial, because........

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