Kayla Smith

First year PhD student the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Honestly lasted longer than I thought

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

“She did not sign anything. She did not consent to any of this. She very much wanted to make other plans for her two U.S. citizen children, especially because her 4-year-old was actively getting cancer treatment here in the United States,” González said. “Not only did they deport this family against the mother’s wishes; they were deported without the child’s medication.”

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

I talked to Conor Lamb after one of his Indivisible town halls (he's doing a bunch, but not running for office), and thought his answer to the "should Dems be pivoting to a better issue" idea was interesting. https://t.co/46n3qfSPx4

[Seth Moulton @sethmoulton]

.@USSupremeCourt just flagging ICYMI

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia - the man the Trump administration wrongly sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador - has a five-year-old autistic son. His mom's description of how he's dealing with this nightmare is absolutely devastating.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Great news here from Senator Van Hollen

[Vote Save America @votesaveamerica]

Want to scream somewhere other than into the void? Sign up now to take action: https://t.co/paMdqel16T

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

The funny thing is if Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was at the Capitol trying to overthrow the government on Jan. 6, Trump would've given him a full pardon.

[Owen Wheelson™ @Quadcarl]

Imagine being afraid of diversity but not a dictatorship.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.

The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."

They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.

The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.

But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.

The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.

But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.

Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Hey @JDVance just checking in again since you haven’t tweeted in awhile: which one of us didn’t read the court docs on this case?

[Michael Wong @miquai]

Life is a planetary process 🌍 https://t.co/uJ8BrqBfAn

[University of Arizona @uarizona]

University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory researchers will have a hand in two of the three instruments NASA selected for deployment on the lunar surface by Artemis III astronauts. https://t.co/qOkkTWtYuU

[Kayla Smith @Planetary_Kayla]

@oyster_doctor @uarizona Thank you!

[Kayla Smith @Planetary_Kayla]

I have committed to @uarizona to pursue my PhD in Planetary Science! Thank you to all who have ever supported me and loved me! Excited for this new journey!

[Kayla Smith @Planetary_Kayla]

@That_Astro_Chic Thank you for all of your guidance and support!! ❤️❤️

[Kayla Smith @Planetary_Kayla]

@uarizona Thank you!! Such an honor!