The judge orders us to stop attempts to expel Columbia

Tuesday a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop his efforts to arrest and expel a 21-year-old Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian events.

The administration has begun trying to arrest The student, Yunseo Chung, this month, according to a case intended by Mrs. Chung’s lawyers.

The judge, Naomi Buchwald, said during an audition at the Federal Court of Manhattan, Tuesday that “nothing in the register” indicated that Mrs. Chung placed a danger for the community or a “risk of foreign policy” or had communicated with terrorist organizations.

Mrs. Chung is a permanent legal resident. He was not an important participant in events on the Columbia campus; she was arrested together with many other students this month To the protest at Barnard College, the twin school of the University of Manhattan.

A variation in the high school that moved to the United States from South Korea when she was 7 years old, was not held by federal agents and his lawyers refused to comment where he was.

Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for Mrs. Chung and Co-director of Clear, a legal clinic at City University in New York, said in a press conference after the hearing that his client “remained residing in the southern district of New York” and that immigration and the application of customs had not been able to find it. During the hearing, he said he was “keeping step away with his courses”.

Mrs. Chung expressed her relief for the judge’s sentence in a statement on Tuesday evening. “After the constant terror in the back of my mind in recent weeks, this decision seems a million pounds from my chest. I feel like I could fly,” he said, adding that he was grateful to his legal team, also we professors, students and members of the Columbia staff who said “we gave me strength in every turn”.

The Trump administration has mentioned a legal statute rarely used to justify its mission to hold and deport Mrs. Chung. The government claims that its presence in the United States hinders the objective of foreign policy of the administration to stop the spread of anti -Semitism.

The order of judge Buchwald said that if the government should try to hold Mrs. Chung under the basis of a different statute, she must “provide sufficient notice” to you and her lawyers.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had offered the same logic he is using in the chung case after the arrest of Mahmoud KhalilGraduated in a Master Columbia program that is held in Louisiana.

Mr. Khalil was arrested before his lawyers were able to present a petition to a judge in his defense. On the contrary, Mrs. Chung sued while she was still free, and judge Buchwald moved quickly on Tuesday without explicitly mentioning the Khalil case.

“No trip to Louisiana here,” said judge Buchwald, and banned the transfer of Mrs. Chung from the southern district of New York.

Kassem said that the court had done the “right and fair and fair thing and that the government was trying to silence the pro-Palestinian activism.

“He is a young university who makes the generations of university students before having done, who is to speak and protest,” said Kassem.

On Monday, the National Security Department declared in a declaration that Mrs. Chung’s conduct had been “worried” and mentioned her arrest by the New York Police Department in what called a “Pro-Hamas protest at Barnard College”. A ticket for the desk was issued with a crime of obstruction of the government administration and released.

The declaration states that the ICE “would investigate the people engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization”. They did not immediately respond to a request to provide evidence of the fact that Mrs. Chung had supported Hamas and the representatives of the press for the department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision of the judge Buchwald.

The officials of the Ice tried to arrest the 21 -year -old, according to his cause. Federal agents visited his parents’ house, Mrs. Chung directly wrote and, after the federal ministries were involved, they searched two residences on the Columbia University campus.

The research warrants, which have been included in judicial documents, have mentioned a criminal right that is aimed at those who protect the non -citizens present in the United States illegally.