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   From: go-home-and-protest-there@you.losers   
      
   Kick all the illegal immigrant activists out.  They have no voice in the USA.    
   Block them from returning for ten years.   
      
   The Trump administration’s escalating efforts to suppress and retaliate   
   against public dissent present a difficult question for noncitizens living in   
   the United States who want to protest the president’s policies.   
      
   Is it worth becoming a target?   
      
   Activists and protest organizers say that’s a calculation that millions of   
   people legally living and working in the United States will have to make as   
   public outrage against the administration grows.   
      
   In Houston on Saturday, several lawyers, lawmakers and organizers hosted an   
   immigration-focused town hall where they explained the constitutional rights   
   that all people have when interacting with law enforcement. But underlining   
   the routine informational    
   session were warnings of caution for those seeking to protest the issues that   
   affect them most closely.   
      
   “As organizers who feel compelled to protest in this day, we have to accept   
   we may be subject to removal,” Jaclyn McJunkin, an immigration-rights   
   organizer and activist, told the group of about 50 people. “It’s just   
   something that you have to    
   embrace, OK? Because if you don’t, then they win, right?”   
      
   For people living in the US illegally, participating in a public protest has   
   long carried the risk of being identified, detained and processed for   
   deportation. Risk is extended to visa holders, lawful permanent residents and   
   Deferred Action for Childhood    
   Arrivals recipients in the country legally — any interaction with law   
   enforcement could lead to a revocation of their status or other    
   mmigration-related consequences.   
      
   NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 21: For the fifth day, pro-Palestinian students   
   occupy a central lawn on the Columbia University campus, on April 21, 2024 in   
   New York City. Earlier in the week over 100 students were arrested by the   
   police and suspended by the    
   university for demonstrating against the war in Gaza and demanding the   
   University divest from Israel.  (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty   
   Images)   
   But new, sweeping immigration orders from President Donald Trump’s   
   administration, along with the detention of nearly a dozen known students and   
   faculty members in the country legally who were involved in pro-Palestinian   
   protests, have exacerbated    
   concerns about any expression of public discontent toward the administration   
   or its policies.   
      
   Trump has long been angered by protests he disagrees with. During his first   
   term, the president sicced law enforcement on a peaceful crowd outside the   
   White House protesting George Floyd’s murder in 2020. In the first months of   
   his second term, the    
   president has expanded his efforts to stifle dissent and wield his power   
   against institutions that have angered him, including law firms, educational   
   institutions, museums and performing arts centers.   
      
   He said last month he would try to stop federal funding for colleges that   
   allowed what he described as “illegal” protests. Trump has not said what   
   in his view makes a protest “illegal.”   
      
   “This is something that I’m living every single day,” Cesar Espinosa, a   
   lawful permanent resident who is also the executive director of immigration   
   civil rights organization FIEL Houston, told the Saturday town hall. “I’m   
   in — not fear —    
   but I’m constantly thinking about this, and it’s something that has hit   
   close at home.”   
      
   Espinosa added: “I have embraced the fact that there could be consequences,   
   but at the end of the day, they could try to take me away, but they’re not   
   going to take away our spirit.”   
      
   Hundreds demonstrate in Dallas   
   One march in Dallas on Sunday drew about 1,200 people, according to estimates   
   from the city’s police department. Protest organizers had hoped for at least   
   10,000, but said fears about immigration operations might have dampened   
   turnout.   
      
      
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