"The university shouldn't be intimidating these students, it should be thanking them for sparing the university from embarrassment" surrounding the partnership, said Howard Simon, executive director of ACLU of Florida.

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"Legislation on a fast track in Tallahassee threatens to derail Florida's role as an international trade hub by complicating and destabilizing the personal and commercial lives of foreign nationals sent here from such important partners as Israel, Latin America and elsewhere.

The culprit is Senate Bill 58, pending in a Senate Committee chaired by Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood. The Bill seeks to prohibit the "application of foreign law."  It should be exhibit No. 1 in the museum of unintended consequences."

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