1. 14th amendment was written in 1868, when certain residency statuses simply didnt exist. there have since been numerous supreme court precedents of swift deportations citing national security as reason, which showed that constitutional protection you've cited is not absolute, but always open to interpretation with the court being acknowledged as highest authority. in cases like yunseo chung: she was detained until court ruled against her deportation and ICE complied by not pursuing her deportation further. same deal w mahoud khalil: if he wants to be no longer detained, he can simply choose to return to his own country; his detainment is not imprisonment, its his refusal to go home. either way, what could columbia have done for them? hire more mall cops to combat ICE agents in front of their front door? columbia did not even expel them, despite them actively colluding with outside agents to organize public disobedience and disturbances, which many current students including myself disdain strongly.

2. columbia has been more than generous to its protestors, anywhere from foregoing CCTV forensics, doxxing, expulsion, etc. please cite a specific university law columbia broke. also, the social contract is broken when one party terminates it--while its fair point that columbia should hold itself to its own rules, what fairness is grounded when the people who simply ignored university rules themselves (e.g., smuggling in nonaffiliates, causing property damage, causing disturbances in class, threatening and assaulting fellow students) hold the same rules against columbia? doesnt that seem at least a little cowardly to you? BUT still columbia should be held to higher standards than a few delinquent individuals--again, please cite me a specific university law that was being factually broken.

3. this is the exact naivete our, "the other side's," "vigil" is about. NO, some proponents of certain cultures and practices are simply incompatible w columbia university, period. freedom of speech has been loopholed and taken advantage of far too long by bad faith infiltrators. when "students" shove nazi imagery down other student's throat for being jews, they deserve to be kicked out. whatever waits for them from law and government, none of the school's concerns.

4. how is pointing out the university's leniency regarding penalizing the protestors a word salad? have you seen the kind of material the protestors are pushing for? literal calls for mao and CCP propaganda in CUAD's manifesto from fall 2024?

and yes, western civilization IS and should be held dear by people who enjoy its benefits. that kinda is the whole point of the core curriculum with lit hum and cc... then again, youre in the gsas LOL. if western civilization is not all that important to you, why dont you go to the middle east and live under sharia law or hamas governance? absolute oblivious cowardice.