How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation Highlight

There is nothing new about the U.S. ferociously, arbitrarily, and cruelly deploying that discretion in order to keep out people the government does not like. What is new is the politically motivated deployment of that power to exclude speech that the government does not want to hear.When Mahmoud Khalil was detained, I wrote on my blog that the U.S. had pivoted to a new tactic, one I called “the deportation of dissent.” Then it happened to me. C.B.P. ostensibly marked me for denial of entry before I arrived. Its officers told me explicitly why I had been marked. Then it used the powers at its disposal to make sure I did not enter the country.