Tufts University student detained by masked federal agents

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

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A Tufts University student from Turkey was arrested by plainclothes agents from the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday in Somerville, Massachusetts. We speak with attorney Ramzi Kassen. Then, President Trump on Wednesday announced a 25% tariff on cars and car parts assembled outside the United States. Bloomberg's Keith Naughton explains what it means for consumers. And, writers and authors are in an uproar over Meta using LibGen, one of the largest online pirated libraries, to train its AI. We speak with author Victoria Aveyard, whose works appear on the database that may have been downloaded and utilized by Meta.

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0:27.0	Protests in Massachusetts after a student was pulled off the street by plain clothes officers wearing face masks. It's Thursday, March 27th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
0:47.7	I'm Chris Bentley.
0:53.2	Today on the show, how President Trump's new import taxes on cars and car parts are going over in Detroit.
1:01.0	Also, an author is shocked to find her copyrighted work can be easily pirated online, including
1:07.6	by the tech giant meta, which is using it to train AI.
1:11.2	I typed in my name, 50 results. Great. So every single book I have ever written,
1:17.5	um, yep, all of it, including novellas. Very thorough. Very thorough guys. Thanks a lot.
1:24.1	Training artificial intelligence on pirated work. That's coming up in about 15 minutes.
1:29.9	But first, the government continues to detain students who have protested Israel's war in Gaza.
1:36.6	Today, we're watching video of an encounter from Tuesday in Somerville, Massachusetts,
1:41.5	where a group of plainclothes officers wearing face masks stopped Ramesa
1:46.2	Austerk on the street and whisked her away to a detention facility in Louisiana, despite a court
1:52.4	order not to remove her from the state.
1:55.2	Ozturk is a Ph.D. student at Tufts University. She's in the U.S. from Turkey on what was a valid student visa
2:02.4	that has now been terminated, according to a statement by the president of Tufts.
2:07.1	Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security have said Ozturk, quote,
2:10.8	engaged in activities in support of Hamas, but did not say what those alleged activities were.
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