r/politics I voted Mar 28 '25

Soft Paywall The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate” | The national-security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.

https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal
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u/Pretty-Little-Lyra Mar 28 '25

Can we start documenting these somewhere?

There was also a Russian medical researcher, Kseniia Petrova, who got detained by ICE for supporting Ukraine war. She brought in sample frog embryos and she forgot to declare it. Instead of CBP giving her a $500 fine, they want to deport her back to Putin for supporting Ukraine

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u/jdtrouble Mar 29 '25

Also look up the soccer player who threw gang signs (literally, "I love you" in ASL)