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🗓️ 2 April 2025
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0:16.1 | This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. In recent weeks, immigration agents have descended on college |
0:22.8 | campus towns across the country and carried out waves of arrests of international students. |
0:29.0 | Just last week, a video circulated of six ice agents in masks and plain clothes surrounding |
0:34.9 | and arresting a 30-year-old Turkish Ph.D. student from Tufts University |
0:38.8 | as she stepped out for dinner during Ramadan. She held a valid F-1 student visa, but was detained |
0:45.0 | because it had been revoked, reportedly without warning. Her case is not an isolated one. Several |
0:51.7 | arrests have taken place at other universities, too, like Columbia, the |
0:55.5 | University of Minnesota, and the University of Alabama, where an Iranian doctoral student was taken |
1:01.3 | into custody after his visa was annulled by the State Department. To help us understand the legal |
1:06.8 | dimensions of these actions, what they mean not only for international students, but for |
1:11.4 | U.S. visa and even green card holders, really anyone who wasn't born in the United States, |
1:17.5 | is Daniel Kandstrom, a professor at Boston College Law School and scholar on immigration and human |
1:23.5 | rights. He founded the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Clinic, where law students |
1:28.8 | advocate for migrants and directs the post-deportation human rights project, which explores |
1:34.3 | the long-term impacts of deportation on families and communities. Kansstrom's latest book, |
1:40.3 | The New Deportation Delirium, examines the sprawling system of deportation in our country since 9-11. |
1:47.9 | Daniel Kansstrom, welcome to fresh air. |
1:50.2 | Thank you. It's good to be here. |
1:52.6 | I'm happy to have your expertise on the show today. |
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