Columbia Student Protester Sues Trump Admin After Permanent Legal Status Revoked

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The studentโ€™s lawyers have also filed a motion seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent her arrest.

A Columbia University student filed a lawsuit on March 24 against President Donald Trump and top administration officials, to block any potential deportation efforts over her participation in pro-Palestinian protests.

Those protests had been described the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as โ€œpro-Hamas.โ€

Yunseo Chung, 21, who moved from South Korea to the United States with her parents when she was aged 7, filed the complaint after her permanent resident status was revoked.

The lawsuit states that Chung was involved in pro-Palestinian protestsโ€”sparked by the conflict in Gazaโ€”at Columbia University but did not make public statements or hold a high-profile role in the protests.

After Chung took part in a March 5 sit-in inside an academic building at Barnard College, the New York City Police Department issued her a desk appearance ticket and released her. The university placed her on interim suspension and restricted her access following that arrest.

A few days later, federal authorities showed up at her parentsโ€™ house to search for her and said that her legal status had been revoked. An ICE official also issued an administrative arrest warrant for Chung and searched her dorm, the lawsuit stated.

Chung has not yet been arrested since the sit-in protest, according to her attorneys. In her lawsuit, Chung called ICEโ€™s actions an โ€œunprecedented and unjustifiable assaultโ€ on her First Amendment and other rights.

She alleged that ICEโ€™s actions were part of โ€œattempted U.S. government repression of constitutionally protected protest activity and other forms of speech.โ€

The plaintiff also accused Trump administration officials of trying to use immigration enforcement โ€œas a bludgeon to suppress speech that they dislike, including Ms. Chungโ€™s speech.โ€

โ€œOfficials at the highest levels of the federal government have made clear that they intend to use immigration enforcement to punish noncitizens who speak out in support of Palestinians and Palestinian rights, or who are perceived to have engaged in such speech,โ€ she stated in the lawsuit.

A DHS spokesperson alleged that Chung engaged in concerning conduct, including when she was arrested during the sit-in at Barnard College that DHS termed โ€œpro-Hamas.โ€

Byย Aldgra Fredly

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