Why Border Patrol detained tourists and green-card holders

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  Good morning.

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  It's Monday, March 17th.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, the wartime law that Trump used to deport hundreds of Venezuelans,

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  How Congress put DC's budget in limbo

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  and NCAA tournament brackets are

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  but first,

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  it's been just over a week

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  since immigration authorities arrested Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Halil.

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  Since then, it's been reported that more people who, like him were in the US legally,

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  either through green cards or valid visas,

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  have been detained or deported in recent weeks as well.

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  Let's start in Boston with a doctor who was returning to the US from visiting family in Lebanon.

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  Rasha Alawiya, who lives in Rhode island,

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  was stopped at the airport where immigration authorities told her she would be deported.

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  Her lawyer told the Providence Journal Alawiya initially had some challenges applying for her H1B visa,

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  but those were resolved and she'd been cleared to return to the US legally

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  when she was detained.

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  The Journal reports that Alawiya had no access to her lawyer or phone.

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