{"id":2415035,"date":"2025-03-25T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-student-protester-sues-trump-admin-while-evading-ice-arrest-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:10:24","slug":"columbia-student-protester-sues-trump-admin-while-evading-ice-arrest-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-student-protester-sues-trump-admin-while-evading-ice-arrest-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia student protester sues Trump admin while evading ICE arrest &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolumbia-student-protester-sues-trump-admin-while-evading-ice-arrest-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2415035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Columbia University student, Yunseo Chung, has initiated a lawsuit against the Trump administration to prevent her deportation by U.S. Immigration and customs Enforcement (ICE). Chung, a south Korean national on a green card visa, claims her student visa was revoked following her participation in a pro-Palestinian protest where pro-Hamas materials were distributed. The lawsuit, filed in New York, argues that her actions fall under the protected rights of free speech and condemns the alleged targeting of university students advocating for Palestinian solidarity.the government has cited Chung&#8217;s involvement in &#8220;concerning conduct&#8221; as grounds for her deportation, but her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/murdaugh-filing-for-new-trial-attorneys-discovered-evidence-could-change-everything\/\" title=\"Murdaugh seeks new trial, game-changing evidence found.\">legal team contends<\/a> this represents a broader assault on Frist amendment rights. Officials have struggled to locate Chung, who is believed to be evading arrest. This case is part of a trend involving other non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-american-taxpayers-charged-millions-to-provide-illegal-aliens-with-free-lawyers\/\" title=\"Exclusive--American Taxpayers Charged Millions to Provide Illegal Aliens with Free Lawyers\">-citizens facing deportation<\/a> for similar protests. The Department of Homeland Security, however, maintains that Chung&#8217;s actions are not protected under the Constitution.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Columbia student protester sues Trump administration while evading ICE arrest<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2044685\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A pro<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/palestinian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">-Palestinian<\/a> student protester at Columbia University, who is in the country on a green card visa, sued the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump administration <\/a>to stop federal immigration authorities from deporting her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the State Department revoked Yunseo Chung&rsquo;s student visa and permanent residency status earlier this month,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> attempted to arrest the South Korean activist on the grounds that she had engaged in &ldquo;concerning conduct&rdquo; during a &ldquo;pro-Hamas&rdquo; protest, per the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3357775\/doj-bondi-invoke-state-secrets-privilege-boasberg-deportation-flights\/\">DOJ invoking state secrets privilege to deny Boasberg information in deportation case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3357470\/appeals-court-divided-alien-enemies-act-venezuelan-migrants-case\/\">Appeals court appears divided on Trump&rsquo;s use of Alien Enemies Act in Venezuelan migrants case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3356691\/judge-denies-trump-bid-alien-enemies-act\/\">Judge denies Trump&#8217;s bid to resume Alien Enemies Act deportations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>On Monday, Chung filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in response to ICE&rsquo;s attempt to deport her. She argued that her conduct was protected as free speech and requested that the court bar the Trump administration from detaining her. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ICE&rsquo;s shocking actions against Ms. Chung form part of a larger pattern of attempted U.S. government repression of constitutionally protected protest activity and other forms of speech. The government&rsquo;s repression has focused specifically on university students who speak out in solidarity with Palestinians and who are critical of the Israeli government&rsquo;s ongoing military campaign in Gaza or the pro-Israeli policies of the U.S. government and other U.S. institutions,&rdquo; the lawsuit reads.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chung is a junior at Columbia University who has been in the country since she was seven years old. <\/p>\n<p>The government&rsquo;s attempt to remove her from the U.S. comes after she was arrested by New York police for her participation in a pro-Palestinian student protest a Columbia University affiliate where pamphlets written by Hamas state media were distributed. <\/p>\n<p>The March 5 demonstration at Barnard College&rsquo;s Milstein Center <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CUJewsIsraelis\/status\/1898047754246795538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">provoked outrage<\/a> from the campus&rsquo;s Jewish community,&nbsp;which posted videos and photos to social media of the Hamas paraphernalia <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CUJewsIsraelis\/status\/1897382954403320170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">distributed<\/a>, including &ldquo;photos of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who vowed to destroy the Jews and Israel, and of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who orchestrated the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">During this occupation, Jewish students and faculty were treated to an artistic display straight from the Hamas Media Office featuring photos of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who vowed to destroy the Jews and Israel, and of Hamas leader Yihya Sinwar, who orchestrated the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/drV6c3lTkD\">pic.twitter.com\/drV6c3lTkD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Columbia Jewish &amp; Israeli Students &#10017;&#65039;&#127470;&#127473; (@CUJewsIsraelis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CUJewsIsraelis\/status\/1898047754246795538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>ICE made repeated efforts this month to detain Chung at her personal residence and at Columbia. However, immigration officials were unable to locate the student, who remains in the U.S. at an unknown location, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/nyregion\/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> her lawyers<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ICE&rsquo;s move follows similar efforts to deport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3357070\/trump-administration-khalil-association-unrwa-green-card-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>, a recent Columbia University graduate and green card holder born in Syria. The administration accuses him of &ldquo;siding with [Hamas] terrorists&rdquo; during pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia, including a demonstration at Barnard College. Like Chung, he sued the administration on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/overplayed-their-hand-dershowitz-rips-dems-impeachment-effort\/\" title=\"\u2018Overplayed Their Hand\u2019: Dershowitz Rips Dems\u2019 Impeachment Effort\">free speech grounds<\/a> to block his deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Chung&rsquo;s federal lawsuit in Manhattan cites Khalil&rsquo;s case and four others where the Trump administration has attempted to deport non-citizens for behavior it deems as supportive of Hamas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The government&rsquo;s actions are an unprecedented and unjustifiable assault on First Amendment and other rights, one that cannot <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">stand basic legal scrutiny<\/a>,&rdquo; the lawsuit reads.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A<strong> <\/strong>senior press representative for the Department of Homeland Security pushed back against claims that Chung&rsquo;s conduct is protected by the First Amendment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yunseo Chung has engaged in concerning conduct, including when she was arrested by NYPD during a pro-Hamas protest at Barnard College,&rdquo; the DHS spokesperson said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pro-Palestinian supporters march to Barnard College during the picket line outside Columbia University, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3345064\/trump-administration-duel-mahmoud-khalil-lawyers-over-where-case-should-be-heard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SET TO DUEL WITH MAHMOUD KHALIL&rsquo;S LAWYERS OVER WHERE CASE SHOULD BE HEARD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said Chung would have an opportunity to present her case to an immigration judge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ICE HSI will investigate individuals engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization. Based on investigative findings, the Department of State may make a determination which may result in visa revocation or other action impacting the immigration status of an alien in the U.S. Upon the determination from the Department of State, ICE will take appropriate enforcement actions,&rdquo; the DHS spokesperson said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2044685\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2044685\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia student protester sues Trump to avoid deportation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2415036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Columbia-student-protests.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37337,52082,4585,52081,32640],"class_list":["post-2415035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-columbia-university","tag-ice-arrest","tag-lawsuit","tag-student-protest","tag-trump-administration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Columbia-student-protests.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415039,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415035\/revisions\/2415039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}