From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, March 28th.

Well, it has happened again. Another college student who supported Palestine on campus

has been accosted and detained for deportation by federal

agents allegedly for being, quote, engaged in support of Hamas, unquote, but with no evidence to

that effect being released or cited by administration officials. This arrest in Somerville,

Massachusetts is drawing particular outrage after it was recorded on a security camera in a video that has now gone viral on the internet. I'm sure some of you have seen it. As Trump and others cracked down on protesters wearing masks to conceal their identities, the agents in the video did exactly that themselves, even though they

are government officials employed by the public. The student this time is identified as a 30-year-old

Fulbright scholar at Tufts University, which is in Medford Mass, little north of Boston. She's a doctoral

student in child study and human development named Ramisa Oz Turk.

According to the Boston Globe, she was not known as an outspoken protest leader on campus.

She did co-author an op-ed in the student newspaper a year ago, in which she identified as a, quote,

graduate student for Palestine and called on the school to, quote, divest from companies

with direct or indirect ties to Israel. The Globe notes that the op-ed makes no mention of Hamas.

Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday defending the detention.

We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist

that tears up our university campuses. And if we've given you a visa and then you decide to

do that, we're going to take it away. I encourage every country to do that, by the way,

because I think it's crazy to invite students into your country that are coming onto your campus

and destabilizing it.

We're just not going to have it.

Secretary of State Rubio, the Massachusetts Attorney General, Andrea Campbell, had a very different

reaction.

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