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Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for April 14, 2025.

The Trump Regime has started to new line of attack against Michigan universities and colleges: By forcing foreign students to leave via threats of deportation.

The Regime is also issuing similar threats to foreign students across the country in an effort, they say, to remove those who are a risk to America. 

But what this is really about is pleasing the anti-immigrant and anti-science MAGA Republican base, draining universities of much-needed federal funding, and removing the free speech rights of noncitizens.

And after they are successful at stamping-out free speech rights for noncitizens, they'll go after American citizens for criticism them. 

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NOTES: 

"More foreign students in Michigan targeted for deportation, including 22 at U-M." By John Wisely of The Detroit Free Press

"For-profit immigration detention expands as Trump accelerates his deportation plans." By Amanda Hernandez of States Newsroom (via Michigan Advance)