US immigration authorities on Wednesday released detained Palestinian Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi following a judge’s order, CBS News reported.
Mahdawi, born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was arrested earlier this month upon arriving for an interview for his U.S. citizenship petition. A judge swiftly ordered President Donald Trump’s administration not to deport him from the United States or take him out of the state of Vermont.
Mahdawi plans to return for a master’s degree in the fall of 2025, according to his lawyers.
His circumstances are similar to those of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student who was detained in the New York area on March 8 and taken to a Louisiana detention facility for deportation. Khalil is still detained.
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