Summary
That’s all our live coverage for the day, thanks for following along. Some links and key stories from the day:
The US has ordered consular offices to significantly expand their screening processes for student visa applicants, including through comprehensive social media investigations.
Columbia University’s interim president has stepped down, the latest leadership shakeup at the Ivy League school, which has been aggressively targeted by the Trump administration.
The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to intervene to allow the government to continue to deport immigrants using the obscure Alien Enemies Act.
A Tufts University student who was detained by US immigration authorities this week, in an arrest that caused widespread outrage, cannot be deported without a court order, a US judge ordered on Friday.
Two prominent law firms sued the Trump administration on Friday, seeking to block executive orders that would halt the firms’ business with the government and revoke the security clearances of its attorneys.
JD Vance told troops in Greenland that the US has to gain control of the Arctic island to stop the threat of China and Russia as he doubled down on criticising Denmark, which he said has “not done a good job”.
Hillary Clinton on Friday called the Trump administration’s approach to governing both dumb and dangerous in an essay excoriating the Signal chat scandal.
US barred from deporting Tufts student without court order
A Tufts University student who was detained by immigration authorities this week, in an arrest that caused widespread outrage, cannot be deported to Turkey without a court order, a US judge ordered on Friday.
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was detained by masked plainclothes officers as she walked in the Boston area on Tuesday, an incident that was captured on surveillance footage that has since gone viral. Ozturk is pursuing her doctorate in philosophy and is a Fulbright scholar.
The Department of Homeland Security has said Ozturk’s visa was terminated, accusing her of engaging in activities in support of Hamas, but providing no evidence to substantiate that claim. Ozturk and three other students co-wrote an opinion piece in the student newspaper last year urging the university to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide” and “divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel”.
Ozturk was taken to a detention center in Louisiana. The US district judge Denise Casper said on Friday the government had until Tuesday evening to respond to the latest complaint by Ozturk’s legal team, the AP reported.
“To allow the court’s resolution of its jurisdiction to decide the petition, Ozturk shall not be removed from the United States until further order of this court,” Casper said.
The Trump administration has increasingly sought to deport students and academics who had varying degrees of involvement in pro-Palestinian campus activism last year, including permanent residents with green cards.
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