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Kyle Cheney: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi
Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists.
@liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown.
Details TK
April 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
@kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists.
@liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown.
Details TK
April 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3lnzzn44h6b2j
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Politico - Judge frees Columbia student activist whom Trump administration wants to deport
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign students who were legally studying in the United States.
By Liz Crampton and Kyle Cheney
04/30/2025 10:58 AM EDT
BURLINGTON, Vermont — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of a Columbia University student who was detained by immigration authorities and targeted for deportation over his involvement in pro-Palestinian protests.
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign students who were legally studying in the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked a rarely used provision of immigration law to target some of the students for deportation by declaring that their continued presence in the country harms America’s foreign policy interests.
Mahdawi was detained on April 14 when he showed up to an immigration office in Vermont for an interview that he thought was going to be a final step to obtaining U.S. citizenship.
“I am saying it clear and loud,” said Mahdawi, who is Palestinian and grew up in the West Bank, outside a federal courthouse shortly after U.S. District Judge William Sessions III ordered his release. “To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”
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Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign students who were legally studying in the United States.
By Liz Crampton and Kyle Cheney
04/30/2025 10:58 AM EDT
BURLINGTON, Vermont — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of a Columbia University student who was detained by immigration authorities and targeted for deportation over his involvement in pro-Palestinian protests.
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by immigration authorities as part of a crackdown on foreign students who were legally studying in the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked a rarely used provision of immigration law to target some of the students for deportation by declaring that their continued presence in the country harms America’s foreign policy interests.
Mahdawi was detained on April 14 when he showed up to an immigration office in Vermont for an interview that he thought was going to be a final step to obtaining U.S. citizenship.
“I am saying it clear and loud,” said Mahdawi, who is Palestinian and grew up in the West Bank, outside a federal courthouse shortly after U.S. District Judge William Sessions III ordered his release. “To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”
/snip