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Mar 2025
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After the arrest of a green-card-holding Columbia graduate, President Trump said it's the "first arrest of many to come." Now immigration officials have detained and arrested Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville, Massachusetts, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University with a valid student visa. Ozturk has been forcibly transported to detention in Louisiana. Vincent Warren is Executive Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and he joins Christiane from New York. 


Also on today's show: author Michael Lewis and host/comedian W. Kamau Bell; Jessica Chen Weiss, Professor of China Studies, John Hopkins University / Director, Institute for America, China & the Future of Global Affairs 

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