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Image: from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife says pro-Palestinian voices won’t be silenced.
February 26. Schuyler Mitchell: Trump Threatened to Revoke Visas of Students Who Dissent. Where’s the Pushback? Universities that decried Trump’s “Muslim ban” in 2017 are largely silent now as Trump bullies international students.
March 7. Andrew Silverstein: State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews.
March 20. Emily Blumenthal: US deports French scientist after officials ‘find texts critical of Trump.’
March 24. Jonah E. Bromwich & Hamed Aleaziz: Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation: Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
April 2. John Washington: Eight international students at ASU have had their visas revoked.
April 8. Jaclyn Diaz, Adrian Florido: Why is Trump sending immigrant university scholars to Louisiana and Texas?.
June 5. Chloe Atkins: Judges bring Trump’s sweeping plan to deport foreign students to a standstill: Multiple federal judges have rejected the administration’s arguments for deporting foreign students who condemned the war in Gaza, but the Supreme Court could have the final say.
Mahmoud Khalil
March 10. Prem Thakker: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained.
March 11. Ben Sales: A growing number of Jewish groups are condemning Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest.
March 16. Jonathan Ben-Menachem: I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Mahmoud Khalil Is One of the Most Upstanding People I Have Ever Met.
March 21. Debbie Nathan: The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil: How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights.
April 3. Aaron Sánchez-Guerra: U.S. government terminates visas of two NC State international students.
April 8. Dr. Noor Abdalla: Letter to My Husband Mahmoud Khalil.
April 11. Adrian Florido: Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.
April 21. Diana Ramirez-Simon: Mahmoud Khalil’s wife Noor Abdalla gives birth as Ice denies his request to attend.
May 21. By Aida Alami: The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla: How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom.
May 24. Adrian Florido: Mahmoud Khalil told a judge his deportation could be a death sentence. Here’s why.
May 28. Adrian Florido: Judge says Rubio ‘likely’ violated Constitution in ordering Mahmoud Khalil deported.
May 29. Angelina Chapin: Noor Abdalla’s First Month of Motherhood: With her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, locked in a detention center, the dentist is suddenly a single parent.
June 5. Democracy Now! Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in “Immigration Gulag” for Nearly 3 Months, Challenges Deportation Efforts.
July 23. Akbar Shahid Ahmed: Mahmoud Khalil Visits Washington To Demand End To U.S. ‘Complicity’ In Gaza: The activist, only out of federal detention for a month, is already back to work advocating for Palestinians facing mass hunger and Israeli attacks, both enabled by the U.S.
Mohsen Mahdawi
April 21. Michael Santi Keezing: Mohsen Mahdawi, the Buddhist.
April 29. Leila Fadel, Jan Johnson, Kaity Klinef: Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks.
May 19. Coral Murphy Marcos: Mohsen Mahdawi, released from Ice custody, graduates from Columbia.
July 26. Mohsen Mahdawi: Mohsen Mahdawi on His ICE Detention and Justice in Palestine.
Rümeysa Öztürk
April 11. Joanna Slater: Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life.
April 25. The New York Times Editorial Board: We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All..
May 9. Adrian Florido: Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk freed from immigration detention.
May 11. The Associated Press: Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, vows to continue legal action after jail release.
July 15. Holmes Lybrand: Homeland Security agent says he was told not to inform Rümeysa Öztürk her visa was revoked when she was arrested.
July 17. Rümeysa Öztürk: “Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison.
Badar Khan Suri
March 19. Archit & Murtaza Hussain: Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens: Badar Khan Suri was detained by DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-Israel groups.
March 19. Kyle Cheney & Josh Gerstein: Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country. Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
May 8. Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff: How a Georgetown scholar went from ‘quiet’ researcher to detainee: Conservative groups stumbled across Badar Khan Suri by investigating the academic centers where he and his wife studied.
May 14. Kimmy Yam & Gary Grumbach: Georgetown scholar released from ICE detention says they treated him like a ‘subhuman’: “There was no charge, there was nothing,” Khan Suri said after his release.
August 5. Josh Gerstein & Kyle Cheney: Georgetown researcher targeted for deportation settles with Trump admin: The agreement allows Badar Khan Suri to resume his employment as a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.