A Columbia University activist with a green card, a Georgetown University academic with a student visa, a Brown University kidney transplant specialist with a work visa: They are among the people who, despite having legal permission to be in the U.S., have recently been detained by immigration authorities or denied entry to the U.S. at airports. Another green card holder, Ma Yang, who has lived in the U.S. since she was eight months old, was deported to Laos in the first week of March after pleading guilty to and serving a sentence for being part of a marijuana trafficking operation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The French government said one of its citizens, a scientist, had been denied entry to the U.S. because his phone had messages where he “expressed his ‘personal opinion’ on the Trump administration’s science policies,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister for higher education and research, told The New York Times.
Author: Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact
Published at: 2025-03-29 22:21:53
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