Silencing dissidents, US

An *administration that imprisons and expels foreign students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy is unlikely to stop with foreign students or, for that matter, with pro-Palestinian advocacy. Trump’s student roundup has already progressed from visa holders to legal permanent residents, and administration officials have said they intend to come after naturalized citizens as well. And the argument the administration is advancing to justify the cancellation of students’ visas — that the students’ advocacy undermines US foreign policy — could as easily be made with respect to those who advocate in support of any other cause the Trump administration happens to disfavor.*