Georgetown: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday the State Department may have revoked more than 300 visas and warned that the Trump administration was looking every day for “these lunatics” after Washington this week detained and revoked the visa of a Turkish student at Tufts University. Rubio’s comments were in response to … Read more
New York: A judge ordered US authorities Tuesday to cease efforts to detain and deport a New York college student, as President Donald Trump presses his campaign against pupils linked to pro-Palestinian protests. Trump has targeted New York’s Columbia University, where the student is enrolled, as an epicenter of the US student protest movement sparked … Read more
Two educational unions sued the Trump administration over its withholding of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University, calling the move an illegal attempt to limit academic independence and free speech on campus. The lawsuit by the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, filed Tuesday in New York, comes … Read more
Washington: The US government has alleged that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application, saying that should be grounds for deportation. The UN agency known as UNRWA provides food and healthcare to Palestinian refugees and has become a flashpoint … Read more
Federal immigration authorities on Saturday arrested a former Columbia University student, who was at the forefront of the pro-Palestinian protests on campus last year, citing a State Department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney. Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian refugee raised in Syria, who graduated from Columbia last December, was taken into … Read more