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By now you may have heard that President Trump's ice thugs detained a Tufts student under shocking circumstances. This is only the latest in a developing trend in which numerous students are being targeted for removal based in many cases on what appear to be their political associations and viewpoints.

In a stunning moment on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated straight out that the administration is hoping to do this hundreds of times.

We think this is a watershed moment. Rubio confirmed the scope and reach of Trump's deportation program and also confirmed

that he's willingly carrying them out for Trump. Today we're talking about all this with

Shev Delal Dahini, a senior official at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Shev, thanks so much for coming on.

My pleasure.

So the latest example of this involves a student named Rumaesa Azturk, a Turkish citizen,

who has a student visa for doctoral work at Tufts.

She was detained by Homeland Security agents near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Video of the event is all over the internet. It's shocking. The ICE agents appear masked.

Now, Homeland Security is claiming that she, quote, engaged in activities in support of Hamas, and that this was grounds for her visa to be revoked.

Shev, what do we know about this situation so far?

Yeah, I mean, I think there's very limited information that is out there and what is supporting

that determination that, you know, she supported Hamas activities. All we know is that she was one of four co-authors of an opinion piece in the university's own

newsletter calling for the university officials to support resolutions of the student body to recognize that there's a genocide

happening in Palestine and also to divest from businesses that support Israel. So that is all

the information that is currently available is that she was an author, one of, I think, four authors of this editorial piece.

We don't have additional information about other involvement that she has.

I mean, she's a Turkish citizen on a student visa who has continued to comply with her

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