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 Her visa was three years out of date.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 protestsImmigration 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from the West Bank, had a student visa canceled in 2022 “for lack of attendance” and was detained by the agency for the outdated visa.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.
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.
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