Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate [View all]
Source: New York Times
March 25, 2025, 4:25 p.m. ET
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to halt its efforts to arrest and deport a 21-year old Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations until the court says otherwise. The administration has been seeking to arrest the student, Yunseo Chung, since earlier this month, according to a lawsuit filed by Ms. Chung’s lawyers.
The judge, Naomi Buchwald, said during a hearing on Tuesday that “nothing in the record” indicated that Ms. Chung posed a danger to the community or a “foreign-policy risk” or had communicated with terrorist organizations. Ms. Chung is a legal permanent resident. She was not a prominent participant in demonstrations on Columbia’s campus; she was arrested along with several other students this month at a protest at Barnard College, the Manhattan university’s sister school.
The Trump administration has cited a rarely used legal statute to justify its mission to detain and deport her. The government argues that Ms. Chung’s presence in the United States hinders the administration’s foreign policy goal of stopping the spread of antisemitism.
Ms. Chung, a high school valedictorian who moved to the United States from South Korea when she was 7, has not been detained by federal agents, and her lawyers have declined to comment on her whereabouts.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html
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