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US arrests second student over Columbia University pro-Palestinian activism

Students demonstrate outside the main campus of Columbia University in New York on March 14 to denounce a Trump-led crackdown on student protests [Kylie Cooper/Reuters]

The administration of President Donald Trump has arrested a second student protester and set a deadline for Columbia University, one of the most prestigious campuses in the United States, to cede control of one of its academic departments.

In a news release on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security accused Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian student at Columbia, of overstaying her F-1 student visa.

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