Student journalists wary of getting caught in crossfire as Trump targets universities | CBC Radio

CBC - 17/04
As the Trump administration in the U.S. threatens universities and detains student activists, a campus newspaper editor says students are thinking twice before speaking up.
As It Happens6:36Columbia newspaper editor says students are self-censoring out of fear

Some student journalists in the U.S. are thinking twice before writing about controversial issues and getting caught in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, says the editor-in-chief of Columbia University's student newspaper.

This self-censoring comes amid a wave of campus arrests, detentions, threats of deportations and student visas being revoked.

U.S. officials have said student visa holders are subject to deportation over their support for Palestinians and criticism of Israel's conduct in the war in Gaza, calling their actions a threat to U.S. foreign policy. Several student activists have been detained without charge by immigration officials. 

Columbia University has been at the forefront of this after the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that occurred at its New York City campus.

Earlier this year, the Ivy League university agreed to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraordinary ultim...
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