A former Columbia University student involved in the anti-Israel protests used a newly created app for illegal immigrants to self-report after their visas were revoked by the Trump administration.
Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian citizen who enrolled in the US on a student visa, was involved in the activities of Pro-Hama as a doctoral student at Columbia University. According to Friday’s statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Her alleged activities in support of Hamas, a designated terrorist organisation, have revoked her student visa. (Related: Ice Nabs MS-13 Gangbangers, major deportation Jamaican murderers)
DHS has used the CBP Home app to obtain footage of Srinivasan leaving the US on Tuesday. This is a newly created app that includes features that illegal immigrants use when deporting themselves.
It is a privilege to be granted a visa for live and studying in the United States.
When you defend violence and terrorism, your privilege should be revoked and you should not be in this country.
I’m happy to meet one of my terrorist sympathizers at Columbia University… pic.twitter.com/jr2uvvkgcm
– Secretary Kristi Noem (@sec_noem) March 14, 2025
“It’s a privilege to be granted a visa to live and study in the United States,” Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem said Friday. “When we defend violence and terrorism that your privilege should be revoked and you should not be in this country.”
“I’m happy to see one of the Columbia University terrorist sympathizers using the CBP Home app for self-promotion,” Noem continued.
As soon as I entered the office, the Trump administration resolved one Biden-era CBP app. This allowed foreigners to apply for asylum along the US-Mexico border. The administration has since restarted and rebranded the application, a CBP home app, allowing illegal immigrants to submit details on their intention to leave the US
Srinivasan’s self-abolition follows the arrest of Syrian-born foreigner Mahmoud Khalil, the leader of the anti-Israel protests who rocked Columbia University in 2024. Halil was taken to immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) custody on March 8th, before resigning while retiring in a detention facility in Louiana.
Srinivasan and Khalil were said to be affiliated with campus protests that have become so violent that Columbian officials were called to New York police to seek arrest. Anti-Israel agitators have been accused of taking over campus property, harassing Jewish students and distributing pro-Hama materials.
The protests that shook Columbia University throughout 2024 were part of student protests nationwide over Israel’s response to the October 7 massacre at the hands of Hamas terrorists. President Donald Trump has pledged to crack down on foreign student protesters who engaged in anti-Semitic and extremist activities; Presidential Action Fighting anti-Semitism on university campus.
The Trump administration cancelled Colombia’s roughly $400 million in March as it allegedly did not disrupt anti-Semitist activities on campus. Columbia officials have begun in response to pressure from the White House Cracks About students involved in active protests, including multi-year suspensions, temporary degrees and full-scale expulsions.
Halil is not the only Colombian protester arrested by deportation officers.
Ice agents in Newark, New Jersey have arrested Rekhaa Cordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, for overstaying an expired student visa, the DHS said Friday. Despite her student visa being fired in January 2022 due to lack of attendance, Cordia stayed in the US and was arrested in April 2024 on suspicion of involvement in Prohama’s activities on the Columbia campus.
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