Foreign students hiding from immigration authorities have adopted a different legal strategy as the Trump administration continues to crack down on suspicion of Pro Hama’s upset on university campuses around the country.
The Trump administration is cracking down on many anti-Israeli foreign student protesters who clashed with police, overtaking campus property and harassing Jewish students at U.S. universities. With immigration enforcement as the top priority, the White House has already oversaw the detention and deportation of several well-known foreigners who are said to be sympathetic to Hamas, a terrorist-designated organization. (Related: Hundreds of illegal criminal immigrants in ice during a six-day Massachusetts attack)
Two foreign students, Yunzeo Chung of Columbia University and Momodu Tar of Cornell University, are both sought by federal immigration authorities. Although they have not surrendered or been caught by immigrants and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, both individuals sued the Trump administration and stopped enforcement action against them. In Chung’s case, she successfully requested the court to stop her arrest. At least temporarily.
“The lawsuit challenges the government’s shocking overreach in attempting to deport university student, plaintiff Yunseo Chung. Litigation Submitted to the Trump administration on Monday. “Government actions are unprecedented and unfair attacks on the First Amendment and other rights that cannot withstand basic legal scrutiny.”
NEW YORK, NY – February 2: Pro-Palestinian protesters protest outside Columbia University in New York City on February 2, 2024. (Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Viewpress)
Virtually every foreign student targeted by the Trump administration has argued that previous actions violated their freedom of speech, but immigration experts who spoke with the Daily Coller News Foundation pointed out that the issue has nothing to do with the First Amendment. The State Department has the power to eliminate non-citizens who are seen as a potential threat to US foreign policy.
“This is definitely not a matter of freedom of speech,” says Matt O’Brien, research director at the Institute for Immigration Reform Law. O’Brien, who previously served as an immigration judge, pointed to a section of the US Code that states that “the existence or activity of the US is alien alien who has reasonable grounds to believe that it has potentially serious adverse foreign policy implications on the US.”
“Temporary visa holders can cancel their visa if they are not acceptable. Green cards (green cards) may be removed if they lose their green cards and violate the removal site.” “The US government has not accused terrorism-related grounds of deportation on the basis of deportation or does not require that the green cards be cancelled for a long time.
The 21-year-old permanent US resident and South Korean native, Jung is involved in anti-Israel protests that swept the university’s campus, her lawyer confirmed in court documents. She was among the individuals arrested on March 5th during a sit-in at Bernard College’s main library.
As typical of pro-Palestinian student activities, Bernard’s library protests disrupt class and led to law enforcement arriving at the scene. A bomb threat was called and urged police to evacuate the building, but some protesters reportedly chose to resist, and some were arrested. After being arrested by the New York Police Station, Chong was given a desk exterior ticket for “obstruction of government administration.” Her attorney formed it in court filings as “a common quote issued by the police at the time of the protest.”
However, it didn’t take long for more serious consequences to come to terms with. Her lawyers accused ICE officials who signed an administrative warrant for their arrest on March 8, claiming that ICE agents visited her residence on March 9, searching for her. The next day, federal law enforcement officials informed her attorney that her legal permanent position had been revoked.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that Chung has been appointed by immigration authorities and accused him of participating in the Pro-Hamas activities.
“Yunzeo Chong is involved in the conduct, including when he was arrested by the NYPD during a pro-Hamas protest at Bernard University,” a DHS spokesman told DCNF. “She is being sought for removal procedures under the immigration law. Chong has the opportunity to present her case before an immigration judge.”
in Interview In the New York Times, her lawyers did not comment on where she was, but she wouldn’t have to hide it for the time being. Judge Naomi Reiss Buchold of the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. Temporarily blocked The Trump administration arrested her.
“The accused and his counterparts are prohibited from detaining plaintiffs’ petitioners while pending further orders from this court,” the appointee of President Bill Clinton wrote at her order. The judge also directed the Trump administration to give advance notice to the court if they wish to detain Chong for reasons beyond his removal from the country.
Tar, 31-year-old PhD student at Cornell University, african researcher, sued the Trump administration just before the State Department decided to seek a student visa. in His lawsuitTaal challenges two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump (Executive Order 14161 and Executive Order 14188) aimed at suppressing anti-Semitism and pro-Amazing activities by foreign student protesters.
The Gambian people claim that the order was forced to withdraw from his public involvement and, according to his lawsuit, sympathizes with Hamas, sought others “right to hear” from his rhetoric in favour of anti-Israel sentiment.
“The executive order has forced Tar to significantly change his previous speech and the patterns of the association,” his lawyer said. “He refrained from attending protests and public political meetings, reduced his social media activities significantly and stopped discussing politics with Cornell’s peers. (Related: Federal government says Colombian students have concealed past employment in a UN agency embedded in Hamas suspects)
“He lives in constant fear that his speech could result in him being arrested by immigrant staff or police,” the lawsuit continues.
NEW YORK, NY – October 7: Pro-Palestine demonstrators march through Lower Manhattan on October 7, 2024 in New York City. (Photo: Alex Kent/Getty Images)
Thar has repeatedly declared his hatred of America over the years on social media, celebrating the massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists.
“The End of the US Empire in Shah Allah’s Life” Tar Posted Online in February 2022. Just a few months later, he — although seemingly contradictory, celebrated his acceptance at American universities. write “A student visa has been issued. We’re going to American babies! Alham Durillah! Let’s get this doctorate.” He later repeated his light emptying against America, Posts “My hatred of the US Empire doesn’t know about the November 2022 Warahi.”
Tar rejoiced online the day Hamas militants plunged into Israeli territory and killed around 1,200 people. “Dialect demand: If there is oppression, we will find someone fighting it. Glory of resistance!” Posted Early morning hours on October 7th, 2023.
Tar was facing the consequences of his campus actions before Trump took office and signed an executive order targeting pro-Hamas protesters. According to Inside Higher Ed. Cornell University officials had suspended him twice by October 2024, telling him in a university email that he “exemplified a pattern of escalating, terrible behavior and neglecting university policies.”
At the beginning of March, DHS asked Taal Suspend to immigration authorities. The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed that his student visa had been withdrawn and claimed the move was in line with Trump’s instructions.
“The division is already fighting in court to vehemently defend President Trump’s agenda, and will continue to do so, especially when it comes to protecting Jewish Americans,” a spokesman for the DOJ said.
Trump is taking unprecedented steps in trying to remove Pro Hamas students from the US soil.
In the most well-known incident to date, immigration authorities arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the leader of the anti-Israel protest at Columbia University, in the beginning of March, and he continued to be detained at a Louisiana facility while his deportation challenge unfolds in court. The ice agent also detained Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and researcher at Georgetown University, arrested Rekha Kodia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, and was arrested for his student visa expired and allegedly participating in the pro-Hama activities at Columbia University.
The White House expelled Lebanese national Rasha Alawie, who works as an assistant professor at Brown University, after it is said that immigration officials were venerating photographs of images of Hassan Nasrara, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist who died, and other professional terrorists. Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian citizen who allegedly participated in the anti-Israel protest, was self-declared to Canada after his visa was revoked.
It appears that the Trump administration has only begun cracking down on anti-American foreign students. DHS says it will continue its investigation of students who are allegedly engaged in Prohama activities.
“ice [Homeland Security Investigations] A DHS spokesperson told DCNF:
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