Columbia and Cornell Students Face Deportation amid Pro-Palestinian Activism
Pro-Palestinian activists at Columbia and Cornell University are facing intensified deportation threats under the Trump administration, raising serious civil liberties concerns.
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While attorneys attempted to characterize Taal as an inoffensive fly on the wall of the pro-Hamas protests he helped lead, the university claimed in an April 26, 2024, letter concerning student code of conduct violations that the foreign radical repeatedly engaged in disorderly conduct, disrupted university activities, ignored university officials' lawful directives, and made unauthorized entry to various private spaces at Cornell.
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Columbia University has been the epicentre of pro-Palestinian student activity.
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Attempts, as part of that push, to deport permanent U.S. residents have raised questions about free speech and the risk of deportation.
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The Trump administration has deemed that Khalil and Chung’s actions, and those of other student protesters, were in support of Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization.
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The targeting of immigrant students for their political activity is worrisome and unprecedented in of itself.
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The student had previously faced the possibility of losing his visa – after he was suspended twice by Cornell last year for alleged disruptive protest activities, and was told that his academic suspension could cause his visa to be revoked, forcing him to leave the United States.
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At the very least, immigration lawyers seem to agree that the Trump administration is taking a harder stance against visa and green-card violations.
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Summary
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident at Columbia University, secured a temporary restraining order against deportation amid a crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism, while her Cornell counterpart Momodou Taal is currently challenging his revoked student visa in court. The Trump administration's intensified actions, under a directive to combat antisemitism on campuses, have seen both students targeted alongside several others across the nation, including recent arrests of students from Tufts and Brown, raising alarms about civil liberties violations and freedom of speech. As protests escalate following violence in Gaza, concerns mount regarding the implications for dissenting voices in academia.
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