Immigration Reporter Nick Miroff on Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

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A Tufts University PhD student from Turkey remains in detention in Louisiana after masked, plainclothes ICE officers arrested her last week, as she was walking on the street. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the State Department has revoked at least 300 foreign students’ visas, in an effort that appears to be targeting students who have criticized Israel’s war in Gaza. That’s after the Trump administration sent 261 Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador prison, an action that’s being challenged in federal court. “Trump has enlisted nearly every federal law-enforcement agency to help with his mass-deportation campaign, a mobilization akin to a wartime effort,” writes Atlantic immigration reporter Nick Miroff. We’ll talk with Miroff about the latest legal battles and immigration news. Guests: Nick Miroff, staff writer covering immigration, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S.-Mexico border, The Atlantic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.3	The Trump administration says in a court filing it mistakenly deported a Maryland man to a prison in El Salvador on one of the three planes at the center of a dispute between the administration and a federal judge.
1:42.0	The incident, first reported by my guest Nick Meiroff,
1:45.4	is inflaming fears that in Trump's haste to deport, quote, millions of criminal aliens,
1:51.1	immigrants are being subjected to false accusations, denial of due process, and inhumane treatment.
1:57.1	We take a closer look at how the administration has been carrying out its mass deportation campaign
2:02.2	as it ensnars both those here illegally and legally. Join us.
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