Plus, why is his employer pretending he never existed?
Any university that accepts federal funds is beholden to the federal government. And since universities need that money, they will do everything they can to keep Big Brother happy.
I wasn’t expecting “pretending the guy that the feds disappeared had never existed” to appear on the bingo card quite this soon.
Some people were lecturing me just a few days ago about how we shouldn’t freak out and exaggerate and say that someone had been “disappeared” just because they were in ICE custody without any charges being filed and no one knew where they were for a few days. They might have had a point or they might not. But… maybe there are some details I’m not aware of, but on first hearing, this really does sound like they just disappeared this person in the full literal historical sense. And the university is going along with it.
Any university that accepts federal funds is beholden to the federal government.
Historically, the government and university systems have worked symbiotically to produce useful technologies and professional experts for each others’ benefits.
This isn’t simply cash-for-service. There has historically been a big revolving door between state agencies and academic institutions.
The Trump Admin is both cutting financial support to universities and purging state officials with friendly school ties.
Any university that accepts federal funds is beholden to the federal government. And since universities need that money, they will do everything they can to keep Big Brother happy.
I wasn’t expecting “pretending the guy that the feds disappeared had never existed” to appear on the bingo card quite this soon.
Some people were lecturing me just a few days ago about how we shouldn’t freak out and exaggerate and say that someone had been “disappeared” just because they were in ICE custody without any charges being filed and no one knew where they were for a few days. They might have had a point or they might not. But… maybe there are some details I’m not aware of, but on first hearing, this really does sound like they just disappeared this person in the full literal historical sense. And the university is going along with it.
Historically, the government and university systems have worked symbiotically to produce useful technologies and professional experts for each others’ benefits.
This isn’t simply cash-for-service. There has historically been a big revolving door between state agencies and academic institutions.
The Trump Admin is both cutting financial support to universities and purging state officials with friendly school ties.