Columbia University student sues Trump administration over threatened deportation

Thomson Reuters

· Posted: Mar 24, 2025 10:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 33 minutes ago

A Korean American Columbia University student, who is simply a ineligible imperishable U.S. nonmigratory and has participated successful pro-Palestinian protests, sued the medication of U.S. President Donald Trump connected Monday to forestall her deportation, a tribunal filing showed.

Yunseo Chung, 21, has lived successful the U.S. since she was seven, but her ineligible squad was informed 2 weeks agone that her lawful imperishable nonmigratory presumption was being revoked, according to the tribunal filing successful the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The Trump medication says her U.S. beingness hinders its overseas argumentation agenda, according to the lawsuit. Chung has not yet been arrested. Immigration agents person made aggregate visits to her residences looking for her.

Actions against Chung "form portion of a larger signifier of attempted U.S. authorities repression of constitutionally protected protestation enactment and different forms of speech," Monday's suit said.

"The government's repression has focused specifically connected assemblage students who talk retired successful solidarity with Palestinians and who are captious of the Israeli government's ongoing subject run successful Gaza."

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleged Chung has engaged successful concerning conduct, including erstwhile she was arrested by constabulary during a protestation astatine Barnard College that DHS termed "pro-Hamas."

The DHS spokesperson did not elaborate further connected the specifics of that behaviour successful question but said she was "sought for removal proceedings nether the migration laws" and volition person a accidental to contiguous her lawsuit earlier an migration judge.

Trump has pledged to deport overseas pro-Palestinian protesters and accused them of supporting militant radical Hamas, of posing hurdles for U.S. overseas argumentation and of being antisemitic.

Protesters, including immoderate Jewish groups, accidental the medication wrongly conflates their disapproval of Israel and enactment for Palestinian rights with antisemitism and enactment for Hamas. Human rights advocates person condemned the government's moves.