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Deporting speakers over supposed ‘propaganda’ is a stock authoritarian move | Sarah McLaughlin
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Mahmoud Khalil , a Columbia University protest leader and green card holder, was arrested by immigration officers last weekend .
Sarah McLaughlin says Americans should be alarmed by the similarities to authoritarian regimes’ speech policing.
The White House has not been shy in asserting that Khalil ’s political expression is at the root of efforts to deport him.
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