Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22914161 (151217ZAPR25) Notable: Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian green card holder and Columbia student, detained by Ice
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[Why was this guy, who had no real ties to Vermont, having his "final naturalization interview" in Vermont, and not in NYC where he lived and went to school. A few people claim Vermont is a "sanctuary state", but the citizens of Vermont don't want terrorists or murderous angry vegan tranny cultists to live there. MAKE VERMONT GREAT AGAIN!]
Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian green card holder and Columbia student, detained by Ice
14 Apr 2025
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and student at Columbia University, was apprehended by US immigration authorities in Vermont on Monday, according to his lawyers and a video of the incident.
Mahdawi, who was a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last spring, was arrested by Ice on Monday morning in Colchester, Vermont, while he was attending a naturalization interview, his lawyer said in a statement to the Guardian.
“We have not received confirmation as to his whereabouts despite numerous attempts to locate him,” his attorney, Luna Droubi, said.
“We have filed a habeas petition in the District of Vermont and have sought a temporary restraining order restraining the government from removing him from the jurisdiction or from the country.”
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His lawyers say in the filing that it appears as though Mahdawi is facing deportation under the rarely invoked provision that the administration has recently used in other cases, such as in their efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil.
The provision gives the secretary of state the right to remove individuals from the US if their presence is deemed to pose “potentially serious adverse foreign policy cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
