Jameel Jaffer
Jameel Jaffer
Jameel Jaffer is a human rights and civil liberties attorney who is deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, which houses the ACLU’s work relating to free speech, privacy, technology, national security, and international human rights. Since he joined the staff of the ACLU in 2002, Jaffer has litigated many leading cases relating to national security and human rights, including cases concerning surveillance, torture, rendition, and “targeted killing.”...
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The immigration laws should not be used as instruments of censorship. The State Department should not be deciding which ideas Americans hear and which they do not.
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The concern is that the government is using the ideological exclusion provision and other immigration laws to manipulate and censor political and academic debate inside the United States.
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The government doesn't have the authority to exclude people from the country, invited scholars, simply because it doesn't like what they have to say.