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I’ve lived a lot of life but can’t say I’ve ever had the secretary of Homeland Security tweet a video of me before.
On March 14, a day before the story broke of an international student, Ranjani Srinivasan, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University who fled from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Canada, I received a call from a friend informing me that a video of me accompanying Srinivasan was released and being circulated online by Kristi Noem.
My body involuntarily began to tremble.
Despite my status as a natural-born American citizen and the fact that I had committed no crime, I envisioned a battalion of law enforcement officers dragging me from my apartment and forcing me into an…