Warren presses Rubio over alleged first amendment violations in Gaza protest crackdown

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has questioned the Trump administration's justification to try to remove several student activists who were living and studying in the US on valid visas and green cards.

In a letter written to secretary of state Marco Rubio, and first provided to the Guardian, Warren notes that these students – Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri and Yunseo Chung – appear to have been targeted for their political views, "potentially violating their first amendment rights … despite the fact that none of these students were accused of a crime at the time or have been to date."

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