Officials said on Friday that federal agents arrested a Palestinian student who participated in protests at the University of Colombia last spring and exceeded the visa of her students.
The student, which was identified by the Ministry of Internal Security in the name of Leqa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was previously arrested for participating in the protests. The officials said that its visa was terminated in January 2022 for not attending.
It is followed by Immigration officers from Newark, New Jersey, the field office in a self -decision on Tuesday for a doctorate in Colombia from India, Rangani Serenivasan, which was accused by the Ministry of National Security of Hamas’s support. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs canceled its visa a week ago.
“It is an honor for me to be granted a visa for living and studying in the United States of America,” said the Minister of National Security Ministry of Security, Christie sleep. “When you defend violence and terrorism, the concession must be canceled, and it should not be in this country.”
The last arrest comes at a time when students in Colombia say they are afraid that they and their friends can be targeted unrelenting the midst of a tense climate on the campus, hours after federal agents executed orders to inspect university housing.
While school officials told the students that no arrests were made and no things were seized when the Ministry of National Security agents entered two students on Thursday evening, foreign students remained on the edge of the abyss.
The campus of the IVY league in Manhattan witnessed the most renewed demonstration in recent days after its arrest on Saturday from Mahmoud Khalil, a student student in Colombia and the permanent legal resident who publicly participated in negotiations during school protests last year.
Many students who dealt with NBC News rejected the comment, but some who agreed to speak asked not to be naming for fear of the government’s revenge.
“This is exactly what I was worried about months ago,” said an engineering student from the United Kingdom, who participated in the demonstrations supporting the Palestinians last spring. The student said he was concerned about campus raids and other potential interventions by the federal government.
The student said: “It seems so, because you do not know the scope of the people trying to target them because thousands of students participated in this matter in some capabilities. It could have been on the camera.”
American students in Colombia gather around their international counterparts, as well as after the Federal agents searched the housing for students.
Another student, an American, said that she was “shocked” when I read the email from Katrina Armstrong, the interim president of Colombia, and the students informed that the National Security Ministry had served the university with judicial inspection orders signed by a federal judge.
“It is very frightening. The school does everything they can to do their best to maintain the safety of students, but I think there is an end to what they can do.” “Last night was evidence of this extent.”
“He was overcome with anger” on the latest inspection orders.
Gavadbur, who leads the Democratic Club led by students at the university, said that and about ten other leaders of the students have met with school officials to transfer their concerns.
“We have very afraid students of revenge, about the possibility of reporting ICE, to the point that they are afraid to call public safety if something happens to them,” he said. “They are very afraid of NYPD. They are very afraid to seek support and services from the same management.”
His lawyers said that immigration and customs agents arrested Khalil as part of an attempt to cancel the student visa and deport him. Khalil, 30, who is an Algerian citizen and green cards, is also married to an American citizen and was arrested in a residential building owned by the university.
“The Foreign Minister has decided that your presence or activities in the United States will have serious foreign policy consequences for the United States,” the Ministry of Internal Security said in a document obtained by NBC News.
He is currently being held in a detention facility in Louisiana, where government officials want to remain. His lawyers argue that he should be returned to New York and that the actions of the administration violate the first amendment.
The removal of Khalil from the campus came days after the Trump administration announced that it would cancel about 400 million dollars from the university’s federal scholarships “due to the continued failure of the school in the face of the constant harassment of Jewish students.”
The school must make changes in a sweeping policy, including the ban on masks “aimed at hiding identity or intimidating others”, and allowing “the power to enforce the law, including arrest and remove incitement.” Colombia said it will work with the administration to ensure continued funding and is “committed to combating anti -Semitism and ensuring the safety and welfare of our students, faculty and employees.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of National Security said that the arrest of Khalil was in coordination with ICE and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “to support President Trump’s executive orders that prohibit anti -Semitism” because Khalil “led activities to Hamas, a dedicated terrorist organization.”
His arrest was only the latest work of the campus after the last academic year, when the demonstrators occupied the student Hamilton Hall, which led to dozens of arrests on charges of infringing on the property of others. While almost all relevant fees were dropped, He said the school on Thursday I have stopped or expelled some of the students who participated in some certificates and temporarily canceled some of the testimonies of those who graduated.
On Friday, dozens of police grains surrounded the university’s main entrance. The doors of the university, which remained open to all the residents of New York, were closed with students closed while students flashed to reach the classroom, and the past police officers, news cameras, and security laws on the campus were closed.
Some students participated in a picnic on Friday afternoon in response to the arrest of Khalil and the student’s penalties.
University leaders want to unify faculty members-some students-by focusing on discussions on how Colombia defended the independence of the school in the face of unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration, because it depends on some international students who participated in the pro-currications that swept the campus.
Some faculty members feel that the Trump administration’s demand that Colombia change how the university works is very far and includes basic powers for the university. They hope to use this moment to raise a discussion of what the university represents.
“How do we prevent the division of the university?” An official said, he asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly, about the mood among the faculty and university employees. “People are more directed towards what we have to do to defend the university.”
A graduate student from India said that she wanted to join the protests led by students due to the removal of Khalil from the campus in recent days, but she was also afraid to do this in a student visa position in danger.
The 29 -year -old said: “Your freedom of expression has been reduced. As students, you must enjoy this type of rights, but you do not do that. You know what is happening, you want to speak, but as an international student, you are in a difficult situation, right?”
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