This month, immigration enforcement agents arrested and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident and Palestinian activist who was prominent in protests at Columbia last year. The administration has said it revoked Khalil’s green card because his role in the campus protests amounted to antisemitic support for Hamas. He is fighting deportation.

Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent U.S. resident, sued President Donald Trump and top administration officials on Monday over a bid to arrest and ultimately deport her in connection to her

The secretary of state said he was trying to expel “lunatics” who had taken part in campus movements, as well as criminals. Some are permanent U.S. residents.

Yunseo Chung, 21, a women’s studies major who emigrated to the US with her family from South Korea as a child, was charged with obstructing governmental administration and issued a desk appearance ticket by the NYPD after her March 5 arrest at the Barnard College sit-in.

Columbia student Yunseo Chung does not have to fear being arrested and deported by ICE for now. A federal judge issued a restraining order preventing authorities from going after Chung.

The government wants the detainee’s case heard in Louisiana, where an appellate judge may be friendlier. At a hearing in Newark, one of his lawyers called the situation “Kafkaesque.”

A Columbia University student and American resident has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his administration for its alleged efforts to remove her from the United States.

A Columbia University student who is a permanent resident filed a lawsuit on Monday to stop a deportation order that was given after she participated in on-campus protests in support of Palestine. She says other participating students have been detained or have had deportation orders filed against them.

Palestinian protest leader slated for deportation to be moved to a Louisiana court thought to be sympathetic to President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown.Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil -- a prominent face of the protest movement that erupted in response to Israel's war in Gaza -- was arrested and taken to Louisiana earlier this month,