The chilling effect of ICE arrests

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Kai and Reema discuss the disturbing arrest of a Turkish national with a valid student visa at Tufts University and the effects these immigration detentions are having on political speech. Plus, WNBA team New York Liberty got a shiny, new training facility. (No, it’s not a spa!) And, another big oops for National Security Adviser Mike Waltz. You just can’t make this stuff up.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“New York Liberty Unveil Practice Facility Amid WNBA’s Race to Attract Talent” from The New York Times
“DoJ lawyers say detained Tufts student was sent to Louisiana before court order” by The Guardian
Video: Marco Rubio’s comments on Ozturk’s arrest posted by Aaron Rupar on Bluesky
“Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public” by Wired

Join us tomorrow for “Economics on Tap.” The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.

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0:00.0	This is so interesting.
0:02.0	Yeah? What are you talking about?
0:03.2	I'll tell you when we get there.
0:04.5	I'll tell you when we get there.
0:05.3	You let me know when we're ready.
0:06.2	We'll just start.
0:07.5	I am ready.
0:08.7	All right.
0:14.4	Hey, everybody.
0:15.2	I'm Kai Ruzda.
0:15.8	Welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:17.2	Where we make today make sense.
0:19.6	Hello, I'm Rie McRaeeres. I'm in for Kimberly Adams.
0:22.5	Thank you, everyone, for joining us. It is Thursday, March 27th.
0:26.7	News today, smiles at the bottom, although it's not a smile, smile. It's a, are you kidding me, smile?
0:32.4	I'm going to pile on yours, or am I. And we will start, though, as we usually do with the news. You get to go first.
0:39.7	All right. I will go first. Okay. So I was on the show yesterday, and we mentioned this, but didn't really get into it.
0:46.9	So this week, you know, I've been following the story of the Turkish student at Tufts, right, who was detained by DHS.
0:54.0	All right, wait, hold on. You can't just say detained, who was detained by DHS. All right, hold on.
0:55.0	You can't just say detained.
0:56.6	She was stopped on a street, right?
0:58.8	And taken away by unidentified people, right?
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