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Ice used warrant application as ‘pretext’ to try to arrest two students in order to deport them

Many students losing visas and research funding are union members. Some in the labor movement are pushing back.

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande are joined by The News Minute’s Dhanya Rajendran and The Wire’s Seema Chishti.

US prosecutors allege Rasha Alawieh had ‘sympathetic photos and videos’ related to key Hezbollah figures

Ranjani Srinivasan, the Chennai-based doctoral candidate at Columbia University who left the United States after their student visa was suddenly revoked, is still bewildered that her peripheral involvement in pro-Palestine protests has led to her being disenrolled from the university. 

New memo lists 41 countries – including Afghanistan, Cuba and Syria – that could face new restrictions, evoking first-term Muslim ban

International students and foreign faculty have watched the crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University with apprehension

Department of Homeland Security has already sent multiple agents to campus in last two weeks

A Columbia student who was involved in protests advocating for Palestine on campus reportedly used the latest version of the US Customs and Border Protection app to "self-deport" after her student visa was revoked.