American arrests of another student, imposing ‘Receive’ to Columbia University | News Donald Trump

President Donald Trump’s administration arrested another student protester and ordered a deadline for Columbia University, one of the most prestigious campuses in the United States to give control of one of his academic departments.

In a news On Friday, the Ministry of Homeland Security accused Leqa Kordia, a Palestinian student in Columbia of exceeding her F-1 student visa.

The statement explained that it was detained by agents from immigration and customs execution (ICE). The other side of a student, India, wounded by India, invited her student visa for participating in the “activities supported by Hammas”, missed the Palestinian armed group Hamas.

Trump’s administration has repeatedly participated in protests against the war of Israel in Gaza with the support of Hamas. She also accused the protesters of supporting “terrorists”.

Kordia’s arrest marks the second time in less than a week when the Palestinian student at Columbia University was taken to ice custody for deportation. On Saturday, a protest spokesman Mahmoud Khalil was also arrested and housed in an immigration custody, the first in New Jersey and later in Louisiani.

Civil freedom proponents say the arrests are intended to suffocate the right to freedom of speech, and Khalil’s lawyer claimed this week that he failed to contact his client privately, violating the right to a legal advisor.

Khalil is a permanent resident of the US, with a green card, and his American wife is a pregnant eight months. Trump’s administration, however, says he plans to give up on his green card.

“The privilege is to get a visa for life and study in the United States. When you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be taken away and you should not be in this country, “said Homeland Security Reaching, Kristi Noem.

But the arrests and recall of student visa were not the only strongly armed actions that Trump’s administration had taken against Columbia in the last 24 hours.

In a letter published late on Thursday night, the administration requested that the Columbia Department of the Secondeery, Southern and African Studies (Mesaas) be placed in an “academic receipt” in which external authority assumes control, often as a penalty for poor management.

The letter stated that the University must come up with a plan to create an academic role of receiving by March 20 at the latest.

Failure, alerted letter, would adversely affect the “permanent financial relationship between the University of Columbia with the United States Government”.

The installation of income was only one on the list of requests, which included the abolition of the Judicial Board of the University of Disciplinary Questions, prohibition of masks in the campus and adoption a Controversial definition anti -Semitism that some fear could limit the legitimate criticism of Israel.

Columbia University is a private school, one of the eight campuses that makes a much -to -tormented Ivy League in the New England region.

However, Trump and other Republicans have repeatedly attacked the University since becoming the epicenter of the Pro-Palestinian protests in 2023 and 2024, while students were devastated against the destruction of the Israeli war, which are experts of the United Nations compared to genocide.

How did we come here?

Last April protests hit the highlight after a disputed hearing on Capitol Hill. The then president of the University, Minouche Shafik, appeared before a Congress panel To face supervision on the allegations that Columbia and other schools failed to solve anti -Semitism in the campus.

The next day, Shafik authorized the New York police to enter the camp that the student protesters set on the eastern Columbia lawn, which led to mass arrests.

The tensions escalated from there. Student protesters claimed that their rights to free speech were reduced and that officials had linked criticism of Israel with anti -Semitism. Some occupied the school building, Hamilton Hall, to show defiance with attempts to dismantle the protest movement.

But what happened in Columbia began a number of similar measures throughout the country, as police were invited to campuses to arrest peaceful protesters. It is estimated that more than 3,000 protesters were arrested between April and July.

Trump has advocated a re -choice on the platform that he will look for and deport foreign students who participated in the protests.

His allies even codified threats on last year’s Republican Party platform, making him one of 20 promises: “Pro-Hamas radical deport and repeat our college campuses safe and patriotic.”

After taking his post to another term on January 20, Trump issued immediately Executive command Calling to remove foreigners who carry “enemy attitudes” towards us “citizens, culture, government, institutions or principles of establishment” or who support “threats to our national security”.

He was now an ally of Israel for a long time and supported his campaign in Gaza, who killed at least 48,524 Palestinians.

In the months since he took his duty, Trump has directed The Ministry of Justice to “investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism at left-wing, anti-American faculties and universities”.

And on Social media This month he warned that he would take difficult actions against any campus hosted by what he called “illegal protests”-not able to define what that category could imply.

“All funding will stop for any faculty, school or university that enables illegal protests,” Trump wrote. “Agitators will be closed/or permanently send back to the country they came from. US students will be permanently expelled or, depending on [sic] Crime, arrested. “

Already, March 7, Trump’s administration announced direct cancellation Of the $ 400 million of federal scholarships and contracts at Columbia University, in what was considered a warning against all higher educational institutions in accordance with presidential demands.

Linda McMahon’s education secretary pointed out to increase the reported works of anti -Semitism after the attack on southern Israel in October 2023 under the guidance of Hamas as a reason for cancellation.

“Since October 7, Jewish students have faced an relentless violence, intimidation and anti-Semitic harassment on their campuses-just that those who should protect them would,” McMahon said in an accompanying accompaniment news.

“Universities must be in accordance with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they will receive federal funding.”

According to the Department of Education, Columbia is currently receiving about $ 5 billion of federal scholarships and contracts. Earlier this week, the school moved to expel or suspend Students involved in anti -war protests.

Trump’s efforts face a return reaction

But some activists questioned whether Trump’s administration was truly motivated to fight hate crimes-it used anti-Semitism as a chimney for further other political goals.

On Thursday, activists with a Jewish voice for peace and other groups gathered in the Trump Tower in New York to protest against Khalil’s arrest Wearing red T -shirts decorated with slogan “is not on our behalf.”

According to reports on Homeland Security Officers searching for the Columbia University, critics are afraid that civil rights of students can be violated.

“We believe that if you are here, you should not be arrested, removed and deported to the protests that all your classmates were perfectly within their involvement of involvement,” Greg Lukianoff, Executive Director wrote on social media on Friday.

Trump’s administration cited a little used part of the Immigration and Citizenship Act as a justification for planned deportations.

He says that the Secretary of State has the right to exclude, “under certain circumstances”, foreign nationals whose entry into the US would “have potentially serious adverse effects of foreign policy for the United States.”

But lawyers and advocates point out that the Supreme Court has repeatedly supported the constitutional right to freedom of speech for immigrants in the United States.

“What happened to Mahmoud is nothing extraordinary, shocking and unheard of,” said Khalil’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem in a recent statement with the US Union for Civic Freedom (ACLU). “You should outrage anyone who believes that speech should be free in the United States of America.”