On today’s show: Immigration authorities arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate who led demonstrations on campus. NBC News reports on how Trump has promised that it’s the first of many such arrests to come. Amanda Coletta, Canada correspondent for the Washington Post, explains how Trump’s actions have affected politics in the country. Justine Calma, science reporter with The Verge, joins to discuss the impact of cuts at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Plus, the Supreme Court will hear a case challenging a ban on “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ minors, U.S. fentanyl death rates are dropping, and relief may be at hand for sufferers of long COVID who lost their sense of smell. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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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.
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.
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