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      <title>Second Palestinian student activist at Columbia University detained by Homeland Security </title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN - A second Palestinian student protester at Columbia University, Leqaa Kordia, has been detained by Department of Homeland Security agents. She is an international student on a student visa and comes from the Palestinian West Bank.&#xA;&#xA;Similar to Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student detained last week despite having a permanent legal status, she played a role in the pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia, including the Hind&#39;s Hall building occupation.&#xA;&#xA;!--more--&#xA;&#xA;Authorities claim that this is normal protocol related to her visa status. That is not true. It is part of a pattern of repression that includes Khalil&#39;s case, and the investigations carried out by Trump&#39;s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism. These arrests come hot on the heels of the university suspending or expelling 22 students at Columbia University.&#xA;&#xA;Emergency campus protests to &#34;Free Mahmoud Khalil&#34; are underway across the U.S. 1000 students walked out on Tuesday in New York City alone. More protests are springing up.&#xA;&#xA;&#34;It&#39;s political repression of campus activists who want to use their free speech to talk about Palestine, plain and simple,&#34; said Erin Boyle, the vice president of national Students for a Democratic Society. &#34;Trump promised deportations of Palestinian and pro-Palestine students to quench the movement, and now he&#39;s trying to deliver. But it won&#39;t work. As long as the student movement is alive and Israel occupies Palestinian land, we will never be silent.&#34;&#xA;&#xA;#MinneapolisMN #MN #StudnetMovement #AntiWarMovement #PoliticalRepression #FreeSpeech #MahmoudKhalil #LeqaaKorida&#xA;&#xA;div id=&#34;sharingbuttons.io&#34;/div]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Minneapolis, MN – A second Palestinian student protester at Columbia University, Leqaa Kordia, has been detained by Department of Homeland Security agents. She is an international student on a student visa and comes from the Palestinian West Bank.</p>

<p>Similar to Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student detained last week despite having a permanent legal status, she played a role in the pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia, including the Hind&#39;s Hall building occupation.</p>



<p>Authorities claim that this is normal protocol related to her visa status. That is not true. It is part of a pattern of repression that includes Khalil&#39;s case, and the investigations carried out by Trump&#39;s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism. These arrests come hot on the heels of the university suspending or expelling 22 students at Columbia University.</p>

<p>Emergency campus protests to “Free Mahmoud Khalil” are underway across the U.S. 1000 students walked out on Tuesday in New York City alone. More protests are springing up.</p>

<p>“It&#39;s political repression of campus activists who want to use their free speech to talk about Palestine, plain and simple,” said Erin Boyle, the vice president of national Students for a Democratic Society. “Trump promised deportations of Palestinian and pro-Palestine students to quench the movement, and now he&#39;s trying to deliver. But it won&#39;t work. As long as the student movement is alive and Israel occupies Palestinian land, we will never be silent.”</p>

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