It gets worse according to this just leaked secret memo:
“The Trump administration is requiring that foreign students studying in, or seeking to study in the United States, pass an ideological test in order to obtain a visa, according to a “sensitive” State Department directive issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio…”
From a purely non-expert, external view, this looks like clickbait. According to the article itself, 1. she tried to smuggle undeclared research material into the US, knowingly (according to messages in her phone); 2. she was given the options and picked the one she wanted; 3. She claimed credible fear and was put into the right pipeline for that; 4. She is now waiting for the next step in the process.
To be honest this doesn’t look like anything remotely as disturbing as being accosted and kidnapped by masked plain-clothes agents in broad daylight.
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