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The Assignment with Audie Cornish

College Arrests: “A Kind of Policy That Ends Democracies”

Apr 3, 2025
40:54

Detaining foreign students over their activism is the “kind of policy that ends democracies.” That’s what Jameel Jaffer tells Audie this week. He’s a law professor and Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. We also hear from Franziska Wild, student senior editor at The Georgetown Voice, about the chilling effect the detentions are having on campus. 

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