How Trump’s obsession with Canada has changed its politics
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What are the main headlines covered in today's episode?
Hey there, it's Shamita. I've got a quick request for you. If Apple News Today is an essential part of your morning routine, follow the show in Apple Podcasts. And if you have another 30 seconds, leave us a rating and review too. It helps other people find our show and it helps us know what you like about it. Thanks. Good morning. It's Tuesday, March 11th. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, why Canadians are booing the U.S. national anthem, how much would you pay for a weather report, and a promising new treatment for people who lost their sense of smell to COVID. But first, President Trump is promising the arrest of a pro-Palestinian student activist and organizer at Columbia University over the weekend is the first of many to come.
Why was Mahmoud Khalil arrested and what are the implications?
Mahmoud Khalil is a green card holder who is in the U.S. legally. He was transferred to an immigration jail in Louisiana after his arrest. A judge on Monday ordered he not be deported while his case is being heard in court. Khalil was arrested under an executive order signed by Trump in January that the administration says is meant to combat anti-Semitism. Trump warned he would revoke student visas and deport terrorist sympathizers. On social media yesterday, Trump called Khalil a Hamas sympathizer and warned student protesters on campuses across the country they are in danger of being arrested for what he calls anti-Semitic and anti-American activity. The ACLU called Khalil's arrest unprecedented, illegal, and un-American, and called on the administration to immediately return him to New York to his wife, an American citizen who is eight months pregnant.
Last night, his legal team issued a statement calling it outrageous to try to revoke legal permanent resident status for someone who has, quote, never committed a crime and who has simply expressed his political opinions. Protesters gathered on Monday in New York to demand his release.
Monique Mahmoud Khalil, man!
Khalil is a recent graduate of Columbia University and was a leader in organizing demonstrations against the war in Gaza on campus last spring. When ICE agents arrested him over the weekend, they told him his student visa was being revoked, which led to immediate confusion because, as I mentioned before, Khalil is not here on a student visa. He's a permanent legal resident. Khalil's lawyer said agents arrested him anyway, saying his green card was being revoked. The Department of Homeland Security can initiate deportation proceedings for people with green cards who have been charged with criminal activity. Halil has not been charged with any crimes or crimes specific to the largely peaceful demonstrations on Colombia's campus last spring, where students set up a tent encampment on the quad to demand that the university divest from companies profiting from Israel's ongoing war in Gaza.
Trump accused Khalil and other protesters of engaging in pro-terrorist activities and of being paid agitators, but has not provided evidence of those allegations. Last spring, Khalil was often the face of the student protest movement, sharing their goals with media and negotiating with university leaders over how to end the tent encampment on campus. Here he is speaking with reporters in April.
How is the Trump administration's stance affecting student activism?
This encampment is a minor inconvenience compared to the generational shaping events taking place now in Gaza. Throughout the negotiations, the Shafi'i administration treated this movement as a matter of internal student discipline rather than a movement, rather than as one of the great moral and political questions of this generation.
And he went on to say their movement, which was organized along with Jewish students on campus, was not about targeting Jewish people or supporting Hamas.
This is a movement, an anti-war movement.
On and around Columbia's campus, Associate Professor Joseph Hawley told Democracy Now that Khalil's arrest and the Trump administration's threat to make more arrests has had a major chilling effect.
We have a lot of members of our community who are on student visas. We have a lot of members of our community who are permanent residents. I have colleagues and students messaging me since yesterday asking about canceling classes or taking classes remote because they don't know how safe it is to be on or around campus with ICE agents prowling the neighborhood.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the main headlines covered in today's episode?
0:01–1:03
2
Why was Mahmoud Khalil arrested and what are the implications?
1:03–3:36
3
How is the Trump administration's stance affecting student activism?
3:36–6:20
4
What is the impact of Trump's tariffs on Canada?
6:20–7:46
5
How are Canadian politicians responding to U.S. tariff threats?
7:46–10:05
6
What changes in Canadian politics have occurred due to Trump's administration?
10:05–14:37
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