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The arrest of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Halil by Immigration and Customs

Enforcement or ICE garnered national

attention last month. And last week, a video of Ramesa Azturk, a Turkish PhD student at Tufts

University being arrested by federal agents, received similar attention. Nearly a dozen international students and faculty at universities across the country

have been detained for potential deportation as part of President Trump's crackdown on those who've expressed pro-Palestinian views.

They include a graduate student at the

University of Minnesota, a doctoral research candidate at Georgetown University, and a Brown

University kidney transplant specialist. And hundreds more have had their visas revoked,

according to the Trump administration. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa.

You're saying it could be more than 300 pieces. Sure. I hope.

I mean, at some point I hope we run out because we've gotten rid of all of them.

But we're looking every day.

That was Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking to reporters last Thursday.

The arrests raise questions.

What are the rights of immigrants with legal status in the U.S.?

and who has the right to dissent under the Trump administration? I'm Jen White. You're

listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the story. Stay with us. We've got a lot

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