USA: The Palestinian student was detained during an interview to obtain citizenship US
Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian student in Columbia University The legal resident of the United States, ICE, and the Immigration and Border Police, during an interview with the process of obtaining American citizenship in Colchster, Vermont. The last stage of the naturalization process will be.
And he said to Guardian The student’s lawyer Luna Droubi, who added that “his detention is an attempt to silence those who rise against atrocities in Gaza.”
Mahdawi was born in a refugee camp in the West Bank and was holding a permanent residence permit in the United States. Green cardSince 2015. It has been a few weeks of completing its degree in Colombia and will receive a master’s degree at the same university in the next academic year.
In a statement, members of the Senate in Fairmont Bernie Sanders Peter Walsh and a member of Congress Becca Peca from the same state appealed to the “immediate liberation” of the Palestinian student and qualified their arrest as “immoral, inhuman and illegal.”
Al -Mahdawi is not the first student or former student in the institution that is arrested or requested by the authorities and faces the threat of deportation due to participation in the demonstrations supporting the Palestinians. Mahmoud KhalilA former Syrian line, son of Palestinian fathers, as well as legal residents in the United States, was arrested in March in New York as he was one of the protest organizers in 2024 in Colombia. Another student sought after fleeing to Canada. Third, Yunuso Chung, 21 -year -old South Korea, has legally lived in the United States seven years ago, partially confirmed. The “anti -Semitism” charges were also used by the Trump administration for Threatening many universities With the withdrawal of money, forcing them to control the government.
Marco Rubio“More than 300 students and academics may have been canceled for their involvement in the protests supporting the Palestinians that the Trump administration is equivalent to” anti -Semitic acts. “The Foreign Minister resorted to a ruling that is rarely invoked, and is chronicled in 1952, to expel foreign citizens who recognize their behavior or even” beliefs “of American foreign policy goals – even if no crime has committed, The government has not already recognized that it recognizes that it occupies the stage of its students until a student is needed.
