Republicans had the upper hand on immigration and the campus antisemitism debate. Then Donald Trump got involved. - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The amendments included one condemning arrests and revocations of student and faculty visas for protected speech by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, which he named for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts student detained by federal immigration authorities over a pro-Palestinian op-ed in the student newspaper.
41% : It was a marked shift from November, when Trump eroded the Democratic base and attracted some pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian voters alike to his cause, and also won over voters on his immigration policies.
40% : "We should deport criminals, and there's widespread support for that, and Trump benefited from that, but these extra-judicial detentions, these disappearances, are really over the top," said Vermont Senator Peter Welch.
38% : Now, progressive and moderate Democrats alike found themselves with a clear point of agreement: Trump is taking things too far.
28% : Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who chairs the committee, accused his Democratic colleagues of disingenuous efforts to scuttle the bill, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and its counterpart, the Protecting Students on Campus Act, that sought to define antisemitism and promote civil rights enforcement in higher education.

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