The Drain 003 - UC students under attack (Part 1/2)

Palma and Kempa are joined by Kat to discuss the serious dangers facing students--particularly international students--in the University of California system.

The UC had already been harassing students who supported Palestine liberation during the Biden administration: loading them onto buses, putting bags over their heads, and sending riot police to violently break up their camps. Kat takes us through this history a bit before landing in the present day.

Now, with the Trump administration hunting down international students (who are here legally, with visas and/or green cards) and sending them to black sites with no habeas corpus and no charges against them, we explore whether UC students can trust university leadership to protect them at all.

California's universities were never going to treat students who believe in Palestinian liberation with any respect. But we note a larger, alarming pattern of major schools bending to the Trump administration's will (See: Columbia in NYC), and ask ourselves just who UC administrators are working for? Now that the Trump administration has demanded the names and countries of origin of all protesting students, will the schools comply?

Stay tuned for part 2 of this discussion on Friday.

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