As President Donald Trump stepped up his assault on foreign learners linked to pro-Palestinian demonstrations, a US judge overturned the Trump government’s request to apprehend and arrest a Columbia University student.
Manhattan determine Naomi Buchwald issued a temporary restraining attempt on Tuesday to stop the administration’s efforts to identify and arrest a 21-year-old student named Yunseo Chung.
According to Buchwald,” Defendants-respondents are enjoined to detain the plaintiff-petitioner pending more attempt of this Court,” according to AFP.
Before making the decision, Buchwald said in judge,” I don’t think there is any information in the history that she would be a threat to the community.”
Nothing in the history suggests that this 21-year-old is a danger, so the idea of placing her in ICE detention is not a particularly interesting outcome, she said, according to the New York Post.
Chung, a South Korean national and permanent resident of the US, was the target of immigration officials ‘ detention in the same manner as they detained Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, who is currently facing deportation.
Both students, according to the government, violated US foreign policy, which allows the secretary of state to remove non-citizens.
Chung, who is apparently hiding, sued the state on Monday, alleging that immigration laws were being abused to censor political speech.
” Immigration enforcement– including immigration detention and threatened repatriation– may not be used as a resource to condemn noncitizen loudspeakers who express social views that the current leadership disapproves.” Her attorneys outlined.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE), Chung counsel Ramzi Kassem said,” As of today, Yunseo Chung no longer has to worry and live in fear of ICE coming to her porch and imprisoning her in the day.”
According to her attorneys, Columbia’s public health department informed Chung that land security officials were requesting her arrest. According to them, federal officials even searched two Columbia-owned homes on March 13th in connection with her situation.
Legitimate objections to Trump’s assault are in the works
Columbia University has been the focus of the Trump administration’s assault, cutting$ 400 million in federal cash on the grounds that the institution failed to protect Jewish individuals from alleged abuse. Trump has called pro-Palestinian school presentations racist, while protesters claim they are works of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
A group of college professors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday, claiming that its policies against foreign students and academics are unconstitutional. The lawsuit also seeks to change Columbia’s money reductions, which were brought by the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors.
The lawsuit read,” The policy prevents or impedes Plaintiffs ‘ US citizen members from hearing from, and associating with, their non-citizen students and colleagues.”
The Ivy League university responded by implementing measures to combat antisemitism and govern demonstrations, but the administration has fallen short of fulfilling Trump’s needs.
Khalil, who played a significant role in student conversations with school officials, is still being held in Louisiana while his attorneys struggle his imprisonment. Chung, in distinction, was hardly a prominent protester. Her attorneys acknowledge that she was detained and released for “obstruction of political leadership,” and that the situation is nevertheless pending in New York judges.
The president’s actions may have wider implications, according to Todd Wolfson of the British organization of college professors.
Make no mistake: The Trump administration won’t stop there, he said,” The Trump presidency is going after foreign scholars and students who speak their minds about Palestine.”
