Reporting on the US is like a ‘tsunami every day’ | Simon Marks on LBC

With students being taken off the streets, professors ‘quitting’ America, and war plans accidentally revealed, LBC’s Simon Marks says reporting on the US is akin to processing a ‘tsunami every day’.

He told James O’Brien there were “key moments” that happened this week which were “clear indicators of where the country is going”.

Marks cited the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student who was seized off of the street by six masked agents of the US government.

“An onlooker videotaped the scene and suggested that perhaps she was being kidnapped because it absolutely looked like a kidnap,” Marks said.

“She was disappeared.”

"Her lawyers couldn't find her. They traipse her deliberately to an ICE detention centre more than a thousand miles away in Louisiana.”

The Turkish national was a student of Boston’s Tufts University, who urged the university in an op-ed to divest from Israel for its attacks on Gaza.

This act, which remains protected under the First Amendment of the United States, was cited as the reason for her deportation by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“So it raises questions about the extent to which another Rubicon was crossed this week in terms of the move towards authoritarianism,” Marks said.

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