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🗓️ 14 March 2025
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Last week, federal ICE officers detained a Columbia University student over last year’s Israel-Palestine campus protests. The Trump administration revoked grad student Mahmoud Khalil’s green card, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accusing Khalil of “siding with terrorists.” Is the administration infringing on First Amendment rights?
Federal attention on Columbia University extended beyond the arrest of Khalil. The White House also announced a plan to cancel over $400 million in federal funding for the university over insufficient protections for Jewish students on campus. Education Secretary Linda McMahon claimed that Columbia had abandoned its anti-discriminatory obligation to protect Jewish students on campus. Is the federal government overdoing its oversight on college campuses?
Both Democrats and Republicans have supported expanding the child tax credit, but you’d never know from how they talk about it. Do politicians still value compromise? Or is it all about the glory?
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0:00.0 | Welcome to another left, right and center, everybody. |
0:03.9 | I'm David Green with Moa Lathie on the left and Sarah Isgir on the right. |
0:09.1 | And I want to say to you both, I think some of the toughest conversations that the three of us have had on this show have been about Israel, about Hamas, about what to make of the intense protests that we saw on college campuses in the United States and how universities have handled that. |
0:28.1 | And these have been hard conversations with other people. And I really appreciate you both because those are tough ones. |
0:34.4 | And I feel lucky that we can hash out some hard questions together respectfully. |
0:38.4 | And I want to ask if we can go there again today for a little bit if you both are willing. |
0:45.6 | Always with you, David. |
0:47.8 | Yeah, I guess. |
0:48.3 | That's what I like to hear. |
0:49.5 | That's what I like to hear. |
0:51.9 | We saw that one of the many executive orders that President Trump has signed since |
0:57.2 | taking office was to, quote, combat anti-Semitism. He wanted tougher penalties on college campuses |
1:04.4 | and universities for not combating anti-Semitic activity and anti-Semitism, feeling like they were not protecting, |
1:13.0 | if they were not protecting Jewish students enough, then they needed to be penalized. That order also |
1:18.2 | instructed the Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, Department of Education to monitor |
1:24.2 | for and report anti-Semitic activities by alien students and staff and to remove them, |
1:32.6 | if possible. And this is exactly what we have seen happen at Columbia University in New York City. |
1:38.4 | Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khalil. |
1:44.5 | And I'm glad you brought this up. |
1:46.0 | Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, |
1:48.2 | the Secretary of State has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals |
1:54.2 | who serve or adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America. |
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