ICE Arrests Second Anti-Israel Activist at Columbia University for Visa Violation
“Leqaa Kordia, who is from the West Bank, had a student visa canceled in 2022 ‘for lack of attendance’ and was detained by the agency for the outdated visa.”
Trump said that more arrests and deportations were coming for campus anti-Israel protesters and he wasn’t kidding. ICE has arrested a second agitator at Columbia University. Her visa was three years out of date.
Like Mahmoud Khalil before her, Leqaa Kordia was allegedly part of the campus riots at Columbia last year, among other things.
FOX News reports:
ICE arrests another individual who participated in anti-Israel Columbia protests
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested a second student who participated in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, after a third student opted to deport themselves from the U.S.
Leqaa Kordia, who is from the West Bank, had a student visa canceled in 2022 “for lack of attendance” and was detained by the agency for the outdated visa. DHS said Kordia was previously arrested in April for an alleged role in the protests, but the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital it does not have an arrest record under their name.
“Columbia has no record of this individual being registered as a current or former student at the University,” the university said in a statement.
“It is a privilege to be granted a visa to live and study in the United States of America,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.
“When you advocate for violence and terrorism, that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country. I am glad to see one of the Columbia University terrorist sympathizers use the CBP Home app to self-deport.”
Good riddance.
Update: This is an image of Leqaa Kordia.
We hope it’s one of the last taken on American soil.
Shalom, Leqaa! https://t.co/2ehwLJpMVo pic.twitter.com/Kf1Wd1xPrl
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) March 14, 2025
#BREAKING: ICE has ARRESTED another pro-Hamas rioter from Columbia University for immigration violations, Secretary Kristi Noem has announced
GOOD! Send them ALL back!
The rioter, Leqaa Kordia, is being deported back to Palestine a year after being arrested by NYPD for… pic.twitter.com/0OGU6O3u3o
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 14, 2025
Kordia, a Palestinian national, was arrested last spring for her involvement in the pro-Hamas riots at Columbia University.
DHS apprehended her last night in Newark. pic.twitter.com/TNNzDTWDR3
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) March 14, 2025
More from the New York Post:
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian who hails from the West Bank, was busted by Homeland Security agents Thursday for alleged immigration violations related to overstaying on an expired student visa, the sources said.
Kordia — who was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Newark, New Jersey — was first arrested in April 2024 for taking part in one of the protests on Columbia’s campus while overstaying on her twice-canceled student visa, according to the sources…
Kordia first entered the US in 2016 on a tourist visa and obtained a student visa the next year, sources said. But in 2021, the feds terminated her visa for lack of attendance. She applied to have her revoked visa reinstated and was approved later that year.
But she again failed to attend classes, leading the feds to again terminate her visa in 2022.
Mahmoud Khalil and Leqaa Kordia can now return to their places of origin and organize protests there. I do hope they let us know how that works out for them.
Featured image via YouTube.
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no one is above the law. Right?
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1kvKpyzqLQmGE
Andrew Branca
Where are these people getting their money from???
Can’t be cheap to attend University in the States as a foreign student?
I bet if we dig deep enough, that we are footing the bill.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find some of the money laundered through USAID for example in her pocket.
Universities take in all sorts of revenue from Foreign Students. Some paid by Qatar and other ME Nations. China funds lots of US Universities as well. Lots of Nations do it. Foreign Nations have an incentive to send Students especially in STEM where they use opportunities as Grad Students to become research assistants or post graduation in private sector (a work permit leading to green card for a graduate of US University is pretty much automatic). They can then funnel that info back home. Not to mention the opportunity for political mischief on/around Campus. There’s big $ involved which is one reason the Univ aren’t more proactive in cracking down on Students Shenanigans.
FAFO.
One of the better YouTube channels I have seen about Middle East history and Jews is https://www.youtube.com/@GeoHistory. I have used this with my grandchildren.
Not particularly reliable. One of their videos refers to the Second Temple as the Temple of Solomon & claims that the Torah was written after the Babylonian exile. I stopped watching at that point.
A goodly chunk of the Old Testament was written after the Exile. But not the first five books (the Torah or Pentateuch). But plenty of liberal critics will say it was because that’s to when they can date actual manuscripts.
(Which, of course, is funny since Ezra/Nehemiah tells us they found a scroll of the Law in the temple ruins upon return from Exile, and the people were profoundly moved by this discovery and having it read to them.)
only second?
The Trump Admin is picking the villain for their case carefully. They are having to reestablish the basic principal that the Sovereign may expel non Citizens. Not so much from a legal perspective though there are those who will shriek, but from a public relations view. In essence they use these cases to deliver the message to both public and Judiciary (once the ineffectual shrieking ends) that the Admin can in fact deport those Aliens who violate the terms of their stay.
Unfortunately that is unconstitutional.
In this case, of course, her visa wasn’t canceled as retaliation for her advocacy, but because she wasn’t studying. That’s completely legit, and the fact that instead of studying she was spending her time as a propagandist for genocide is just lagniappe.
But those people who are here on student visas and are not only studying but scrupulously obeying the law, while also advocating genocide in their spare time, can’t have their visas revoked no matter how bad the cause they’re advocating, and no matter how much they would never have been awarded a visa in the first place if they’d engaged in this advocacy abroad.
Unfortunately that is unconstitutional.
No, it isn’t. The Constitution applies to Americans, first and foremost. Those who are invited here at our leisure can be sent away at the same. PERIOD. If they are shown to be doing things at odds with the requirements for being granted a visa in the first place, the visa can be annulled. Otherwise you’re advocating for a suicide pact.
This is where your pedantry making the process into the principle runs up against a proper moral and legal stance.
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