From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lehrer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Tuesday, March 17th.

With the war in Iran taking center stage and news coverage, it's easy to lose sight of the Trump

administration's main domestic agenda, mass deportation. And even within that, it's easy to miss a big

aspect of it that flies under the radar mass detention. New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer

has a very good new article about that, and there's

also breaking news. A woman from New Jersey the last 10 years, an immigrant from the West Bank,

was released from a detention center in Texas yesterday after a year behind bars there, March 13th,

2025 until yesterday, March 16th, 2026. And she was emblematic of two big

trends in immigration detention. One, according to the AP, she was detained while voluntarily

checking in with ICE in New Jersey. And two, she was the last of the people still being held in connection with protesting the war in Gaza

at Columbia University. Mahmoud Khalil out of detention, Mosan Madhawi out of detention, and now much later and much less well-known, La Khourdea.

And upon her release yesterday, she drew attention not just to her case, but to the

larger detention issue.

We're going to keep fighting. There is a lot of injustice in this place. There is a lot of

people that they shouldn't be here in the first place.

We're going to keep fighting for them.

We're not going to forget them.

And we're not free until everybody is free.

Lecois Cordia yesterday.

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