Yunseo Chung, 21, moved to the United States at the age of seven and now faces expulsion on pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University.
The permanent resident of the United States and a student of the University of Columbia, Yunseo Chung, 21, continued the administration of US President Donald Trump to arrest his expulsion, accusing the authorities of using the same tactics employed against other university activists compared to their pro-Palestinian opinions.
Chung said that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moved to expel it after its arrest on March 5 while protesting the disciplinary measures of Columbia University against student demonstrators.
In a trial filed on Monday, Chung said that in the days following his arrest, ice officials signed an administrative arrest warrant and went to his parents’ residence seeking to hold it for expulsion.
Chung is accused of having “exercised worrying conduct” and was arrested during a “pro-Hamas demonstration”, according to a main spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security.
“It is requested for the dismissal under immigration laws. Chung will have the opportunity to present his case before an immigration judge,” said the spokesperson.
Immigration officers were unable to hold Chung despite the visit of his parents’ residences several times, according to reports.
Chung, who emigrated the United States from South Korea with his parents at the age of seven, asked for an order from the court to block the Trump administration efforts to expel non-citizens who participated in campus demonstrations against the War of Israel against Gaza. She also asks a judge to prevent the administration from holding it, getting it out of New York or withdrawing it from the country while its trial takes place.
“The shocking actions of the ICE against Ms. Chung are part of a broader scheme of attempted the American government of the protest activity protected by the Constitution and other forms of speech,” said the Chung, which was filed before the Federal Tribunal of Manhattan.
In the event of success, the Chung’s trial could block the administration’s efforts to expel non -American citizens who participated in campus demonstrations against Israel.
Chung’s trial also quotes the Trump administration’s efforts to expel five other students who spoke on Pro-Palestinian issues.
In one of the most publicized cases, immigration officials arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a student graduated from Columbia, and told him that his green card was revoked because he had participated in demonstrations.
Khalil, who obtained a master’s degree in the last semester, was a negotiator for the students while negotiating with Columbia officials during their tent campus on campus last spring.
Momodou Taal, from Cornell University, who received an opinion last week, is also due for last week to go to the immigration authorities after continuing on March 15 to pre -empt the expulsion efforts.
Taal’s lawyer Eric Lee said on Monday that his client was not required to go before a hearing in the trial scheduled for Tuesday in Syracuse.
The government also owned Badar Khan Suri, an Indian who studies at the University of Georgetown – although a federal judge has prohibited the expulsion of Suri – as well as to refuse to leave a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Brown University entering the United States.
Chung’s petition comes after President Trump promised to deport foreign pro-Palestinian demonstrators, which he accused of being “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American”, an accusation rejected by the demonstrations and defenders of rights which say that the order of the president violates the rights of freedom of expression of international students and schoolchildren.
