“This is the first arrest of many to come,” President Trump boasted on Truth Social about the arrest of the Columbia graduate student (and green card holder and pro-Palestinian campus leader) Mahmoud Khalil. “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again!” Even more ominously777-sofa777, perhaps: “We expect every one of America’s Colleges and Universities to Comply!”

It is easy to fear where this all might lead, even if you choose to take Trump seriously rather than literally. The State Department is apparently using artificial intelligence to review the social media posts of foreign students, looking for visas it might revoke. On Monday, Ann Coulter suggested that compiling a list of students to deport because of their stances was an obvious violation of the First Amendment. The scholar Samuel Moyn, who spent much of the first Trump term criticizing those hyperventilating about the president, called it “a big and flagrant step towards fascism.” My colleague Michelle Goldberg called it the biggest threat to free speech since the Red Scare.

“The state cannot make it up as it goes along,” John Ganz wrote — as it seems to have done in this case,66jogo Cassinos ao Vivo Brasil arresting Khalil without seeming to know he holds a green card, according to his lawyer, or which constitutional protections that afforded him. “If it does, then we no longer live under the rule of law; we live under a police state.”

But the arrest is not only a portent but also a kind of culmination, with a history stretching farther back than Trump’s second inauguration. Those protests have been going on in some form for almost a year and a half, and many of the country’s liberal institutions and organizations regarded them as dubious and perhaps criminal.

When the Trump administration announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in federal grants previously promised to Columbia, explicitly to punish the school for its handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, it was both outrageous and unsurprising: the country’s elite schools have been under fire for their handling of such protests; several university presidents have been forced to resign in response. The new administration has reportedly prepared a list of nine additional schools to target.

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Mr. Park, a Korean-born graduate of Georgetown University, leveraged a family fortune and an easy gregariousness to seduce the power brokers of Capitol Hill in the 1970s.

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