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Palestinian student detained at US citizenship interview
Gulf News
|April 16, 2025
US immigration authorities on Monday arrested another Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian campus protests, detaining him as he attended an interview to become an American citizen.
Mohsen Mahdawi’s lawyers, in a court filing seeking his release and halt to any imminent deportation, also claimed US President Donald Trump’s mounting crackdown on immigrant student protesters violates the US Constitution — the latest judicial challenge to the Republican adminstration. A Palestinian born in the occupied West Bank, Mahdawi has been a legal US permanent resident since 2015, was set to
This story is from the April 16, 2025 edition of Gulf News.
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