Adrian Florido
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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Ozturk screams visibly terrified as agents handcuff her and lead her to an unmarked car. She is Turkish and a Ph.D. student at Tufts on a student visa. She's been involved in pro-Palestinian activism. Last year, she published an op-ed criticizing her school's leaders for not condemning the war in Gaza or cutting economic ties with Israel.
Not precisely, but the Department of Homeland Security said that Ozturk has, quote, engaged in activities in support of Hamas. DHS has offered no evidence of this. Her lawyer calls those allegations baseless. She says Ozturk is a gifted student and Fulbright scholar studying child development.
But last night, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he personally revoked her visa after assessing her activities.
Ozturk, after her arrest, was quickly flown to a detention center in Louisiana, Michelle, and her lawyer is fighting to free her.
Well, yesterday Rubio said that he has revoked hundreds of visas, many of them student visas, making those people immediately deportable. Here he is again.
Rubio is delivering on President Trump's promise, Michelle, to deport non-citizens whose activism he claims supports Hamas terrorism and is anti-Semitic. Trump has taken special aim at universities, saying they're infested with radicalism. He's demanded that schools crack down on protests and is pressuring them with funding cuts or threats of funding cuts.
Student activists say this is all about muzzling dissent and free speech and that these deportation arrests are about spreading terror and punishing students for their political beliefs. And they say that the arrests are unconstitutional and lawyers are fighting them.
Well, like I said, their lawyers are fighting in federal courts and immigration courts to prevent their deportations. Some are making constitutional arguments, leaning on the First Amendment right to free speech. The government is also aggressively defending its authority, though, to revoke the legal status of these students and to expel them.
Thanks, Michelle.
Well, on Saturday, President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. It is a law from 1798 that authorizes summarily detaining or deporting citizens of an enemy nation. This is a wartime law. We are not at war with Venezuela, but in his order, Trump described Venezuela's Tren de Aragua prison gang as a force invading the U.S.
And hours later, hundreds of immigrants his administration claims are in that gang had been deported to El Salvador. Here's White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt on Fox News.
El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, said that he would lock them up for a year, and he released photos of shackled men being unloaded from planes and having their heads shaved.
Yeah, it was an emergency suit from the ACLU on Saturday, and Judge James Boasberg of the Federal District Court in D.C. said that he didn't think the Alien Enemies Act authorized the immediate deportations. He told the government to turn back any planes that might already be in the air, but that didn't happen.
And it's not clear if the planes had already landed in El Salvador or if officials chose not to divert them back to the U.S. El Salvador's president, who takes pride in flouting due process in his crime crackdowns, mocked the judge's order on social media, writing, Venezuela does not regularly accept deportation flights from the U.S.A., so Bukele said that he had struck a deal with the U.S.
to imprison these deportees for a fee.
Well, the Alien Enemies Act has only been used three times before. The last time during World War II when the government used it to detain Japanese, German, and Italian citizens. Legal learned, the ACLU's attorney in this lawsuit told NPR Trump is misusing the law.
He says the ACLU acted fast because once the U.S. has turned someone over to a foreign government, federal courts lose jurisdiction. A judge can't order El Salvador to send people back.
We don't know who most of them are. The Trump administration hasn't named them, hasn't offered evidence to back up its claim. Since yesterday, some families of men who were in immigration detention in the U.S. have spoken out to say they fear their loved ones may have been in this group and that they are not gang members. So what happens now?
Well, the Trump administration has appealed the judge's order temporarily blocking deportations under the law. The ACLU says it'll fight this vigorously. They insist there is huge danger in allowing the president to invoke wartime authorities during peacetime that it sets a dangerous precedent.
Thank you, Wei.
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