Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian activist, is finally free after spending an entire year in ICE custody, despite judges repeatedly demanding her release. Kordia was taken into custody last March after reporting for a routine check-in at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Jersey. This move came nearly a year after her initial arrest in April 2024 at a protest against Israel’s genocide of Gaza outside Columbia University.
According to The Guardian, Kordia, 33 and originally from the West Bank, Palestine, remained detained at the Prairieland detention center in Alvarado, Texas, even though a judge ruled three separate times that she posed no threat and could be released on bond. She was ultimately released on a $100,000 bond.
