By Dan Alexander November 7, 2016 2:07 PM
NEW BRUNSWICK — A student columnist for Rutgers’ student newspaper claims he was fired for questioning the choice to edit out the term “illegal immigrants” from one of his pieces.
Aviv Khavich, who is originally from Israel, told New Jersey 101.5 he was writing about a rally held on campus by a group called “Undocurutgers” in support of immigrants to protest pro-Donald Trump “chalkings” written on sidewalks around the Rutgers campus.
“I am an immigrant so I decided to write an article to give my perspective,” he said.
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