Trump college crackdown: List of students detained amid antisemitism on campuses

Federal authorities person detained assemblage students and professors astatine schools crossed the United States since the Trump medication began its crackdown connected alleged Hamas sympathizers and those with expired visas.

The medication is present facing ineligible challenges in at slightest 2 abstracted pupil detention cases, though that fig volition apt summation successful the coming months.

"They are not conscionable random acts of instrumentality enforcement," nationalist information and quality rights lawyer Irina Tsukerman told Fox News Digital of the arrests. "They are portion of a broad home nationalist information strategy that besides involves probe of universities for facilitating amerciable activity, including acts of antisemitism and wide violence, worldly enactment for violent organizations, and different violations that caused tremendous inconvenience, distress, and adjacent panic to students, staffers, and the wide colonisation alike."

Tsukerman noted that President Donald Trump signed enforcement orders to combat antisemitism connected assemblage campuses and amerciable migration soon aft taking office, truthful the arrests "should person travel arsenic nary surprise."

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Columbia University graduates teardrop their degrees successful protestation against school's practice with the Trump administration. (FNTV) (FNTV)

The quality rights lawyer besides added that "part of the crushed the medication is going hard aft immoderate of these students present is due to the fact that the universities did not bash their occupation successful the archetypal spot successful vetting individuals coming into the state oregon successful holding them accountable aft they engaged successful repeated violations some of U.S. instrumentality and field regulations successful bullying, harassing, intimidating students, causing wide obstruction and engaging successful bigotry and usurpation of [the] non-discrimination statute."

"Part of the crushed the medication is going hard aft immoderate of these students present is due to the fact that the universities did not bash their occupation successful the archetypal place…"

Here are the students, professors and employees who person been detained truthful acold since Trump took bureau successful January, each nether a antithetic acceptable of circumstances:

Rasha Alawieh

Rasha Alawieh, a 34-year-old Brown University adjunct prof and doc specializing successful kidney transplants from Lebanon, was detained and deported earlier this period astatine Boston Logan International Airport portion coming backmost from a travel to Lebanon. 

Dr. Rasha Alawieh was deported to Lebanon from Boston Logan airdrome aft attending the ceremonial of a notorious Hezbollah person successful Beirut.  (Handout )

Alawieh had an H1-B visa, according to her attorneys, but allegedly expressed enactment for and attended the ceremonial of a slain Hezbollah person liable for the deaths of hundreds of Americans. 

"Last month, Rasha Alawieh traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to be the ceremonial of Hassan Nasrallah – a brutal violent who led Hezbollah, liable for sidesplitting hundreds of Americans implicit a four-decade panic spree," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said successful a connection to Fox News Digital connected March 17. "Alawieh openly admitted to this to CBP officers, arsenic good arsenic her enactment of Nasrallah." 

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"A visa is simply a privilege, not a close – glorifying and supporting terrorists who termination Americans is grounds for visa issuance to beryllium denied. This is commonsense security," McLaughlin added.

Federal authorities alleged that they besides conducted a hunt of Alawieh's telephone and recovered "sympathetic photos and videos" of Hezbollah leaders, arsenic good arsenic materials showing "various different Hezbollah militants" successful a deleted folder. 

The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology connected the field of Brown University successful Providence, RI is pictured connected April 25, 2019.  (Getty Images)

"With the find of these photographs and videos, CBP questioned Dr. Alawieh and determined that her existent intentions successful the United States could not beryllium determined," DOJ lawyers wrote, according to the Providence Journal. "As such, CBP canceled her visa and deemed Dr. Alawieh inadmissible to the United States."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the lawyer representing Alawieh and Brown Medicine.

Alawieh's relative filed a national suit connected March 14 against DHS and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, arguing that she was detained "without immoderate justification and without permitting them entree to their counsel."

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"Despite repeated requests from Dr. Alawieh’s household members and a unpaid attorney, CBP refuses to supply immoderate justification for their detention, refuses to let the attorneys to speech to Dr. Alawieh, and refuses to supply assurances that Dr. Alawieh volition not beryllium deported to Lebanon astatine 7:45 p.m. tonight, March 14, 2025, instantly pursuing this detention, adjacent though 2 U.S. authorities entities, the Department of State and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service ("USCIS") person approved Dr. Alawieh’s H1B petition and visa," the suit states.

Yunseo Chung

Just past week, a national justice issued a restraining bid against national officials to halt their efforts to detain Columbia University pupil Yunseo Chung, who allegedly engaged successful pro-Palestinian demonstrations, aft she filed a suit against the government.

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a emblem connected the rooftop of Hamilton Hall astatine Columbia University successful New York, US, connected Tuesday, April 30, 2024.  (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A DHS spokesperson antecedently told Fox News Digital that ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) "will analyse individuals engaged successful activities successful enactment of Hamas, a overseas violent organization. Based connected investigative findings, the Department of State whitethorn marque a determination which whitethorn effect successful visa revocation oregon different enactment impacting the migration presumption of an alien successful the U.S. Upon the determination from the Department of State, ICE volition instrumentality due enforcement actions."

Chung, who moved to the United States from South Korea erstwhile she was 7, is suing Trump and respective members of his medication aft national authorities tried to apprehension and deport her earlier this month. 

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In the lawsuit, Chung’s attorneys accidental that the government’s pursuit of the Columbia pupil is an "unjustifiable battle connected First Amendment."

Anti-Israel protesters rally extracurricular of Columbia University successful New York City connected Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

The suit states that Chung was a subordinate successful the anti-Israel protests, not a leader, and was "one of a ample radical of assemblage students" expressing "shared concerns" implicit the warfare successful Gaza. Chung, according to the lawsuit, "visited" the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, a fig of tents organized successful the halfway of campus, but does not authorities whether she stayed there. The suit besides makes it wide that she did not marque nationalist statements oregon prosecute successful high-profile activities portion astatine the protests.

The suit states that connected March 8, an ICE authoritative signed an administrative apprehension warrant for Chung and national instrumentality enforcement went to Chung’s parents’ location the adjacent time seeking to apprehension her.

An ICE authoritative allegedly told Chung’s attorneys connected March 10 that her greenish paper had been "revoked," according to the lawsuit. The authorities has the authorization to rescind imperishable nonmigratory presumption if they judge a idiosyncratic has violated U.S. migration law.

A justice connected March 25 temporarily blocked ICE from deporting the student.

Alireza Doroudi

ICE agents connected March 26 arrested and detained University of Alabama doctoral pupil Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian nationalist who was studying mechanical engineering. 

The University of Alabama College of Nursing building. (Getty Images)

DHS told Fox News Digital successful a connection past week that helium "posed important nationalist information concerns."

"ICE HSI made this apprehension successful accordance with the State Department’s revocation of Doroudi’s pupil visa," a DHS spokesperson said successful a statement.

Doroudi reportedly came to the U.S. successful January 2023 connected an F-1 pupil visa aft "clearing each migration checks," but it was revoked six months later, according to pupil paper The Crimson White.

Doroudi's attorney, David Rozas, told Fox News Digital this week that the doctoral pupil "is successful bully lasting with his I-20 and SEVIS status."

"He has an awesome resume and has been a important enactment to the university's mechanical engineering department. The lone infraction helium has is simply a insignificant speeding ticket," Rozas said. "He has ne'er participated successful immoderate authorities oregon governmental protests, nor has helium been progressive successful immoderate societal media oregon in-person groups expressing nationalist opinions connected immoderate matter. To punctuation his fiance, helium is simply a pupil successful the United States pursuing the American dream. He entered the state legally and has ever complied with U.S. laws."

Rozas said Doroudi's attorneys "are perplexed by his detention and are hopeful for a swift resolution."

Mahmoud Khalil

Federal officials detained erstwhile Columbia University postgraduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil, who allegedly helped pb pro-Palestinian protests astatine the Ivy League schoolhouse successful New York City, past month.

Mahmoud Khalil allegedly played a large relation successful the protests against Israel astatine Columbia University.  (Ted Shaffrey, file)

Khalil's lawsuit has garnered worldwide attraction and sparked protests successful New York City.

The 30-year-old Algerian national is presently detained successful Louisiana.

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People stitchery for a protestation successful enactment of Mahmoud Khalil successful beforehand of a national courthouse successful Newark, New Jersey connected March 28, 2025. Khalil's lawyers are responding to a question by the authorities to person Khalil's lawsuit moved to Louisiana. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)

Khalil, who was calved successful a Syrian exile campy and holds ineligible U.S. imperishable nonmigratory status, entered the United States successful 2022 connected a pupil visa and aboriginal filed to go a imperishable nonmigratory successful 2024.

Attorneys for the Justice Department are arguing for Khalil's deportation, saying helium failed to disclose his ties to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) erstwhile helium applied for his greenish card.

Israel has accused 12 UNRWA employees of being progressive successful the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks against Israel. They besides alleged Khalil did not uncover his enactment astatine the Syria bureau successful the British embassy successful Beirut, Lebanon.

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Marc Van Der Hout, 1 of Khalil’s lawyers, and Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla, characterized Khalil arsenic a "political captive detained astatine an ICE installation successful Louisiana" successful statements published to Instagram past month.

Khalil's lawyers person argued that his enactment for Palestinians is protected by escaped code and that the administration's deportation efforts are an effort to forestall his "current and aboriginal speech" and to deter others from doing the same. 

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Columbia University pupil Mahmoud Khalil talks to the property during the property briefing organized by pro-Palestinian protesters who acceptable up a caller encampment astatine Columbia University's Morningside Heights field connected Friday evening, successful New York City, United States connected June 1, 2024.  (Getty Images)

"The Policy, including as-applied to Mr. Khalil, does not springiness the due announcement to anyone residing successful the state which of their otherwise-lawful speech, opinions, beliefs, oregon advocacy volition effect successful the authorities targeting them for detention and removal, and it provides authorities officials with unfettered discretion to people disfavored speech," the lawyers wrote.

His lawyers besides noted that the medication does not specify who qualifies arsenic a "Hamas supporter." They accidental that determination is nary clarity connected Khalil's activities that are "aligned to Hamas."  

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On March 18, Khalil wrote: "In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials indispensable unite to support the close to protestation for Palestine. At involvement are not conscionable our voices, but the cardinal civilian liberties of all. Knowing afloat that this infinitesimal transcends my idiosyncratic circumstances, I anticipation nevertheless to beryllium escaped to witnesser the commencement of my first-born child."

Leqaa Kordia

Leqaa Kordia was the 2nd idiosyncratic who attended pro-Palestinian rallies astatine Columbia University detained by ICE past period pursuing Khalil's apprehension and aft different Columbia pupil opted to self-deport.

Kordia, who is from the West Bank, had a pupil visa canceled successful 2022 "for deficiency of attendance" and was detained by the bureau for the outdated visa. DHS told Fox News Kordia was antecedently arrested successful April for an alleged relation successful the protests. The New York Police Department, however, told Fox News Digital it does not person an apprehension grounds nether that name.

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Columbia University has been a hotbed for anti-Israel protests. (Peter Gerber)

"Columbia has nary grounds of this idiosyncratic being registered arsenic a existent oregon erstwhile pupil astatine the University," the assemblage said successful a statement. 

Noem said "[i]t is simply a privilege to beryllium granted a visa to unrecorded and survey successful the United States of America" successful a connection posted to X. 

"When you advocator for unit and terrorism, that privilege should beryllium revoked, and you should not beryllium successful this country. I americium gladsome to spot 1 of the Columbia University violent sympathizers usage the CBP Home app to self-deport," Noem said.

Ranjani Srinivasan

Alleged Columbia protester Ranjani Srinivasan self-deported backmost to India past period aft having her pupil visa canceled.

Anti-Israel agitators conception an encampment connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Monday, April 22, 2024. (Peter Gerber)

Rumeysa Ozturk

ICE detained Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish nationalist and Tufts University postgraduate student, past period successful Somerville, Massachusetts.

"We person precocious learned and verified that Rumeysa Öztürk, the pupil who was detained by national migration authorities yesterday, is presently being held successful Louisiana," Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said successful a statement. "We admit however frightening and distressing this concern is for her, her loved ones, and the larger assemblage present astatine Tufts, particularly our planetary students, staff, and module who whitethorn beryllium feeling susceptible oregon unsettled by these events."

He added that the "footage of Rumeysa’s arrest" released connected March 26 "is disturbing."

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A DHS spokesperson told Fox News connected March 26 that Ozturk was "granted the privilege to beryllium successful this state connected a visa."

"DHS and ICE investigations recovered Ozturk engaged successful activities successful enactment of Hamas, a overseas violent enactment that relishes the sidesplitting of Americans," the spokesperson said. "A visa is simply a privilege not a right. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who termination Americans is grounds for visa issuance to beryllium terminated. This is commonsense security."

The ineligible squad representing Ozturk told Fox News she had a valid F-1 visa presumption anterior to her arrest. They besides said nary charges person been filed against their lawsuit and are demanding her release.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials person arrested a Tufts University postgraduate student. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe)

"Rumeysa was heading to conscionable with friends to interruption her Ramadan accelerated connected the evening of March 25th erstwhile she was detained adjacent her location successful Somerville, MA by DHS agents," Khanbabai Immigration Law told Fox News successful a connection past week. "We are unaware of her whereabouts and person not been capable to interaction her. No charges person been filed against Rumeysa to day that we are alert of."

Federal officials are arguing for her deportation. She has a proceeding successful national tribunal connected Thursday afternoon.

Kseniia Petrova

In February, national officials detained Kseniia Petrova, a Russian idiosyncratic moving astatine Harvard Medical School, astatine Boston Logan International Airport portion she was attempting to instrumentality from a travel to Paris.

Petrova, a bioinformatician astatine the Kirschner Lab, was bringing backmost frog embryos astatine the petition of a prof astatine a French laboratory Harvard is collaborating with, her lawyer Gregory Romanovsky confirmed to Fox News.

Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician astatine the Kirschner Lab, was bringing backmost frog embryos astatine the petition of a prof astatine a French laboratory Harvard is collaborating with. (Facebook)

The illustration was picked up successful Paris and was expected to beryllium brought to Harvard and Petrova was unaware she needed to assertion them astatine customs. Officials seemingly revoked her visa astatine the airdrome alternatively of pursuing protocol, Romanovsky said.

"As upset arsenic I americium with ICE, they are not astatine responsibility and are conscionable doing their job," helium says.

Her lawyer noted that Petrova was antecedently detained successful Russia pursuing anti-war protests erstwhile struggle initially broke retired betwixt Russian and Ukraine.

Like different detainees, Petrova is being held astatine an ICE installation successful Louisiana.

Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, New England, USA. (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"Despite having lawyers and the information she did not bash thing amerciable successful the archetypal place, she is inactive there, and we person nary thought erstwhile she volition beryllium paroled (or released, nevertheless simply released is unlikely)," Cora Anderson, who works with the Russian scientist, shared connected Facebook.

Badar Khan Suri

ICE past period arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and Georgetown University postdoctoral student, aft helium allegedly shared pro-Hamas propaganda online.

Federal Judge Patricia Giles ordered that the Indian national "shall not beryllium removed from the United States unless and until the Court issues a contrary order." He, similar different students, is being detained successful Louisiana.

The postdoctoral student student, successful the United States connected a pupil visa, was accused of "actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism connected societal media," a elder DHS authoritative said successful a statement.

Badar Khan Suri, an Indian nationalist and doctoral pupil astatine Georgetown University, was arrested by ICE implicit an allegation helium dispersed Hamas propaganda connected societal media. (Georgetown University)

"Suri has adjacent connections to a known oregon suspected terrorist, who is simply a elder advisor to Hamas."

The bureau did not sanction the suspected violent oregon Hamas advisor. The New York Times reported that Suri's woman is Palestinian American. Her begetter is Ahmed Yousef, a erstwhile advisor to Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas person Israel assassinated past twelvemonth successful Iran. 

Momodou Taal

Anti-Israel protester Momodou Taal, a Cornell University planetary postgraduate student, dismissed his lawsuit against the Trump medication connected Monday aft helium was threatened with deportation. He volition present permission the state voluntarily.

The Ivy League student, who holds dual citizenship successful the United Kingdom and Gambia, said that though helium intended to advancement the lawsuit, helium decided to permission the state instead, fearing for his safety. 

Momodou Taal is leaving the United States voluntarily. (X/@MomodouTaal)

DHS revoked the student's visa aft helium allegedly participated successful anti-Israel pupil activities and praised the "resistance" against Israel respective times connected his X account. Despite being accepted connected a pupil visa successful 2022, Taal has besides posted astir his "hatred" for the U.S. and called for "the extremity of the US empire."

"Today I took the determination to permission the United States, escaped and with my caput held high," Taal wrote successful a station connected X connected Monday. 

"Given what we person seen crossed the United States, I person mislaid religion that a favourable ruling from the courts would warrant my idiosyncratic information and quality to explicit my beliefs," helium continued.

He wrote successful a Wednesday station connected X: "Palestine is the eventual clarifier."

University of Minnesota student

ICE detained an unnamed, planetary postgraduate pupil astatine the University of Minnesota past month.

The assemblage said the student, who was enrolled astatine UM's Carlson School of Management, was arrested astatine an off-campus residence.

"This is not related to pupil protests," a elder DHS authoritative told Fox News Digital successful a connection astatine the time. "The idiosyncratic successful question was arrested aft a visa revocation by the State Dept. related to a anterior transgression past for a DUI."

Tsukerman, the nationalist information and quality rights lawyer who spoke with Fox News Digital, said "no 1 has an automatic close to participate the" United States. 

"It tin beryllium reviewed by the U.S. government. It tin beryllium denied connected the ground of information threats it presents, and adjacent if you are a ineligible resident, if you prevarication connected your application, oregon if you prosecute successful repeated acts of unit oregon different transgression offenses, oregon adjacent if simply question retired of state for longer than the instrumentality provides, you tin beryllium denied a way to citizenship and you tin beryllium deported, and we are seeing that," she explained.

Questions bash remain, however, astir the caller deportations and however they volition interaction escaped code connected assemblage campuses.

ICE detained an unnamed, planetary postgraduate pupil astatine the University of Minnesota past month. (University of Minnesota)

"There are galore radical who are acrophobic that portion the Trump medication is doing the close happening successful reviewing individuals who whitethorn beryllium presenting a information to the state and to chap students and module connected campuses, the mode to spell astir it is not needfully clear," Tsukerman said.

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She besides suggested the arrests and deportations could "backfire with aboriginal administrations" that "hold a wholly antithetic ideological oregon governmental enactment and who determine that a antithetic governmental position is unfounded and radical should beryllium deported for that reason."

"If you commencement wide deportation based simply connected ideology unsocial and without weighing successful connected however overmuch of it is crossing the enactment of outright extremism and however overmuch is elemental governmental disagreement, you tin make a precise uncomfortable clime that becomes unwelcoming to radical who tin contribute, who tin alteration their minds, who could beryllium persuaded by amended acquisition and who tin germinate arsenic they survey oregon enactment successful the United States," she said.

Fox News' Alexis McAdams, Danielle Wallace, Rachel Wolf, Sarah Rumpf, Cameron Arcand, Christina Shaw and Pilar Arias contributed to this report.