The Columbia College pupil dealing with deportation after she was arrested at an anti-Israel protest can’t be detained by the feds, a decide dominated Tuesday.
Manhattan federal courtroom Decide Naomi Reice Buchwald issued a short lived restraining order blocking immigration authorities from detaining 21-year-old Columbia junior Yunseo Chung.
“I don’t suppose there’s any proof within the file that she can be a hazard to the neighborhood,” Buchwald mentioned in courtroom earlier than issuing the ruling.
Chung, a everlasting US resident who emigrated from South Korea along with her household at age 7, filed go well with towards the Trump administration Monday to forestall the feds from tossing her overseas.
The Division of Homeland Safety claimed Chung engaged in “regarding conduct,” together with her arrest throughout a violent takeover of Barnard School’s Milstein Library on March 5.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin instructed The Publish in a press release earlier Tuesday that Chung was “being hunted for elimination proceedings beneath immigration legal guidelines.”
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