A Columbia University graduate student and green card holder was picked up by ICE and threatened with deportation.

The president says this is just the beginning.

Trump wrote, we will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Onger. The case calls to mind a

widespread crackdown on free speech back in the 40s and 50s. The president of Yale said, referring

to communists, there's not going to be any witch hunts at Yale because there aren't going to be any

witches at Yale. In other words, you, the government, don't need to come in. We'll take care of it ourselves.

Plus, when reporters investigate the rich and powerful, intimidation often comes next.

We were on the receiving end of threatening letters from high-price law firms warning us that if we went down this path, they intended to hold us accountable in court.

It's all coming up after this.

This is on the media. I'm Michael Onger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. On Thursday, agents from the Department of Homeland Security searched

two residences on the Columbia University

campus. This, less than a week after a Columbia University graduate was apprehended by ICE.

Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead Columbia University student encampment protest against the

war in Gaza, was taken into custody at his university-owned apartment late

Saturday. According to his attorney, one of the agents said they were executing a State Department

order to revoke Khalil's student visa. When the attorney told them he had graduated in December

and was in the US as a permanent resident with a green

card. They said they were revoking that too. Khalil was separated from his wife, a US citizen

who's eight months pregnant, and promptly transported to a lockup in Louisiana where he

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