Meantime, a group of Democratic members of Congress traveled to Louisiana yesterday to visit

foreign students, Mahmoud Khalil, and Ramesa Azturk, and a pair of federal detention facilities

as both faced potential removal from the U.S. Video captured agents last month apprehending

Oz Turk, a Turkish national with a valid F-1 student visa near her home outside Boston.

Khalil is a former Columbia University graduate student who was also arrested by ICE officials.

The Trump administration maintains their each a threat to national security for their activism

against the Israeli war with Hamas in Gaza. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey was part of that visit

and joins us now. Thanks for being with us, sir. So Trump officials say Ramesa Oshk's visa was revoked

because she allegedly engaged in activities supporting Hamas. She's a PhD student at a university

in your state. What's your understanding of why she was

detained and targeted for deportation? Well, the only public statement, which has been made,

is that she wrote an op-ed in the Tufts University undergraduate newspaper about her views on a resolution that had passed in the Tufts government undergraduate government.

So that's the accusation against her that she exercised her free speech to be able to have an opinion

on an action that was taken by the student government at Tufts University. That's protected under the

First Amendment of the United States, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. And beyond that,

there have been no accusations.

There's been no evidence of a crime.

They haven't even alleged a crime.

And yet they whisked her off of the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts,

where Tufts University is located, moved her to Vermont and then to Atlanta, and then to a remote part of Louisiana,

where Congressman Jim McGovern and Congresswoman Ayanna Presley and I visited her yesterday.

And thus far, they are presented from the government's perspective, no evidence that in any way could be constituted as a crime.

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