It never occurred to me that my "betters" in terms of educational and career achievement would have a tougher time seeing right and wrong clearly than the guy who dropped out of college to join the Army. I can't believe I took rocket fire in Afghanistan and they're the ones who are afraid.
![On March 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs approved revocation of Öztürk's F-1 visa. Ozturk, 2025 WL 1145250, at *2. The
approval was, apparently, based solely on the assessment by DHS and ICE that
Öztürk's co-authorship of the op-ed a year earlier demonstrated her involvement in organizations that "may undermine U.S. foreign policy." Id. at *17. Öztürk was
not informed that DHS and ICE were considering seeking her visa revocation, nor
that such a determination was made. The Armstrong Memo stated that "[d]ue to ongoing ICE operational security, this revocation will be silent; the Department of
State will not notify the subject of the revocation." Id. at *3 (emphasis added).
Four days later, six heavily armed, plainclothes officers, some masked,
arrested Öztürk without warning on the street near her residence and drove her
away in an unmarked vehicle, crossing state lines and transporting her first to
New Hampshire, then to Vermont, and the next day, flying her to a correctional
facility in Basile, Louisiana, where she remains in custody.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreifwmw3d6qswzfjzxxdt43xxkqxeyjtg5nzrjne42tgowzz3x3r7ne)
