Overview

• Joe Rogan denounced President Trump’s directive to deport foreign-born college students who participated in nonviolent anti-Israel protests, calling the policy “f***ing crazy” on his podcast.
• The administration is defying immigration judges who have ordered the release of students accused of supporting Hamas, including Columbia’s Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi.
• Tufts Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk and Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri were also detained for peaceful criticism and freed after judges cited lack of evidence.
• Rogan privately urged Trump at a July dinner with UFC president Dana White to stop deportations of migrants without criminal records.
• Critics argue the expanded ICE raids threaten academic freedom and risk labor shortages in sectors dependent on immigrant workers.