Brandon Drenon
Digital Reporter at BBC
Journalist | BBC News, Washington DC
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5 days ago |
bbc.co.uk | Brandon Drenon |Robin Levinson-King
For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres. Those taken into custody in a string of high-profile student detentions captured on video have not faced any criminal charges and instead appear to have been targeted for involvement in pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
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5 days ago |
bbc.com | Brandon Drenon |Robin Levinson-King
Anxiety at US colleges as foreign students are detained and visas revoked Brandon Drenon and Robin Levinson-KingBBC News, Washington DC and BostonBBCFor the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres.
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5 days ago |
flipboard.com | Brandon Drenon |Robin Levinson-King
14 hours agoWhen Marco Rubio fired the man in charge of dismantling USAID, he made enemies inside the MAGA movement. Peter Marocco, the Trump administration official in charge of dismantling USAID, left a meeting at the White House last week to return to his office at the State Department. But when he arrived, …
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6 days ago |
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Brandon Drenon
Momento en que agentes vestidos de civil detienen a Rumeysa Ozturk, estudiante de la Universidad de Tufts y ciudadana turca. [Captura de pantalla/BBC]El gobierno de Donald Trump ha revocado visas a cientos de estudiantes internacionales y ha detenido aproximadamente a una docena más en campus universitarios de todo Estados Unidos, a menudo sin previo aviso ni la posibilidad de apelación.
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Brandon Drenon
A US federal judge has given President Donald Trump's officials a one-week deadline to comply with his court order or risk being found in contempt of court - potentially setting up a historic clash between two equally powerful branches of government. Judge James Boasberg said the "most obvious way" for the officials to avoid contempt was to "assert custody" over a group of more than 200 people who they deported to El Salvador last month - after he told them not to do so.
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The first presidential debate of the election season is tomorrow. I talked to voters in Georgia where the debate will be held to hear their thoughts on the candidates, and their predictions for November. “It’s in God’s hands now.” https://t.co/hR3j8CNATf
@BBC is covering all sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict. In this story, I explored how tens of thousands of Palestinian-American’s lives have changed since Saturday. Checking to see if family in Gaza is alive has become an hourly job. https://t.co/lKXkHGMJn7
Today, police released video of a pregnant black woman shot and killed while sitting in her car, accused of shoplifting. On Sunday, a white man high on crystal meth pointed a loaded shotgun at police officers, was arrested, and sits in jail.