{"id":36306,"date":"2025-03-18T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=36306"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:50:11","slug":"columbia-universitys-former-student-arrested-on-charges-immigration-laws-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/36306","title":{"rendered":"Columbia university\u2019s former student arrested on charges immigration laws violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: Two foreign students affiliated with Columbia University were charged with violating immigration laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the students self-deported, while the other was arrested for staying in the United States despite expiring of her visa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Homeland Security, the visa of Ranjani Srinivasan, a PhD student in urban planning, had been revoked this month for alleged support for Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Srinivasan used the Customs and Border Protection mobile app to self-deport herself before leaving for Canada on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>A video released by DHS shows Srinivasan traveling at La Guardia Airport.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian student living in the United States on a student visa, was arrested for staying in the country illegally after her visa expired.<\/p>\n<p>According to DHS, Kordia\u2019s visa expired in January 2022. Although Columbia University said she was not a student of the university while DHS said she was arrested by New York police in April last year during pro-Palestinian protests near the university.<\/p>\n<p>DHS Secretary Kristi Noam said in a statement that when a person supports terrorism and violence, they lose their right to remain in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong said that DHS executed search warrants at two university residence buildings but no arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate and pro-Palestinian activist, and his lawyers have filed a lawsuit against the government for his release.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil\u2019s lawyers said Khalil was transported from New York to Louisiana in handcuffs and shackles and was subjected to inhumane treatment while in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil\u2019s arrest sparked protests in New York, where students expressed strong concerns about the arrests.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, the Trump administration has presented strict conditions for the restoration of federal funding to Columbia University, including a mask ban and a formal definition of anti-semitism. The university has been ordered to implement within a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: Two foreign students affiliated with Columbia University were charged with violating immigration laws. One of the students self-deported, while the other was arrested for staying in the United States despite expiring of her visa. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the visa of Ranjani Srinivasan, a PhD student in urban planning, had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36307,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36306\/revisions\/36307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}