What’s more “American” than the right to protest?

Last weekend, former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by federal immigration authorities. The move was an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on dissent, and it has people wondering: isn’t this against the constitution?

Brittany is joined by Chenjerai Kumanyika, a journalism professor at NYU, and Rick Perlstein, a historian of conservatism. Together, they talk about America’s love/hate relationship with the First Amendment, and what ICE’s arrest of a lawful permanent resident could mean for America’s culture of protest.

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