Prim Thakkar
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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If we could just step back for a second.
When President Trump last addressed the BRT when he was on the campaign trail, his big push was on tax cuts.
He's going there today as he's proposing tax hikes in the form of tariffs.
Absolutely.
I think that's really worth underscoring here, is just how clumsy and haphazard this attempt by the administration has been to detain Mahmoud and to subsequently revoke his green card.
First of all, as the professor said, these agents forced themselves into this apartment building, did not necessarily apparently introduce themselves, demanded to see their identification, Mahmoud and his wife.
chose to tell him that they were revoking his visa, that the State Department was revoking his visa, upon them being told that, in fact, Mahmoud had a green card, they were on the phone.
They said, oh, actually, you know, the green card's revoked as well.
And so that was the basis for the consequent or subsequent way in which this has been seen, which is that the administration has been very
lackluster in their explanation for how this is justified at all.
First, the shadowy arrest and detention at all, the fact that it's unclear where Mahmoud is right now.
I can sort of break some potential possible news right now that it seems, based on internal ICE detaining tracking, that Mahmoud appears to be in Louisiana, as was feared.
That is not confirmed, but that is what we are seeing from the ICE detention tracker.
which can sometimes be delayed or lagged.
But that is something to keep in mind, that Mahmoud, who was detained in New York City, is, 36 hours later, already possibly in Louisiana.
So there's that aspect, the shadowy aspect of this.
There's also the aspect that the administration
doesn't seem to know exactly how to justify this very haphazard unilateral move, and is trying to appeal to simply President Trump's executive orders, rather than things like the Constitution or case law or legal precedent.
You have Marco Rubio, as mentioned, saying that they will be revoking not just visa cards, but also and-slash-or green cards, which is very much beyond his sort of stated authority, his jurisdiction.
there's one individual law that gives him wide authority to do so but this would require marco rubio personally interfering on foreign policy grounds to justify such a deportation and so i think you're going to see a lot of not just moral pushback but legal pushback against something that is just so haphazard so reckless and so unjustifiable in so many different ways prim thacker again explaining so thanks for doing it's a little bit long but you know um
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