By now you could have heard that President Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers detained a international scholar at Tufts under shocking circumstances, for an unnervingly skinny rationale. That is solely the most recent in an escalating development, wherein quite a few students are being targeted for removal based mostly in lots of circumstances on what seem like their political associations and viewpoints. In a shocking activate Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated straight out that the administration is hoping to do that a whole lot of occasions. We predict this can be a watershed second: Rubio shouldn’t be solely confirming the scope and attain of Trump’s concentrating on of international college students, however he’s additionally leaving little doubt that he’s occupying a central function in all of it. We talked to Shev Dalal-Dheini, a high official with the American Immigration Attorneys Affiliation. She decodes the authorized complexities behind this entire saga—and explains why these removals ought to unsettle all of us. Take heed to this episode here. A transcript is here.
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