(10 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 10 March 2025.
1. Entrance to Columbia University
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pearson Lund, Columbia Undergrad:
“I think it’s totally unacceptable. Like, there’s no reason why a student should be detained by ICE of all organizations. Just, you know, for, you know, this is part of free speech. This is a part of what we’re guaranteed to as rights within this country. There’s no reason why anyone should be arrested for this reason. Like, they’re not inciting like terrorism. They’re not inciting any violence. They’re just trying to make their message heard.”
3. Sign saying student ID necessary to get onto campus
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Pearson Lund, Columbia Undergrad:
““It’s going to have a silencing effect. The knowing the ICE agents especially, can just come in, revoke your visa and send you back home. It’s going to have a massive silencing effect. People aren’t going to protest nearly as much. People aren’t going to open their mind nearly as much as you just talk about what’s going on nearly as much, because they’re going to be afraid that they’re going to face consequences, that in any other circumstance is just totally unacceptable.”
5. Students in line to get onto campus
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pearson Lund, Columbia Undergrad:
“Who determines what the illegal protest is? Because all protests are going to be deemed against the state to some extent, or against governments to some extent, so they’re always going to be illegal. That’s just simply saying all protest is effectively banned, or all protest I don’t like is effectively banned.”
7. Columbia students
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Pearson Lund, Columbia Undergrad:
“There’s a there’s a lot of messaging (from Columbia University), but there’s not a lot of action in the aspect of they say that they support these different things, but they don’t follow through with it. They say that they support free speech. They say that they support, you know, making sure that people are safe on campus. But that should be for everyone. That shouldn’t just include, you know, one or two specific groups. It should be everyone should be able to be protected on campus. And there’s certainly no reason why there should be ICE people coming to the campus and taking people off campus. Like, that’s crazy. Like, how on Earth is that even just in a…in any other society, in any other nation, where would that be okay?"
9. Columbia entrance
STORYLINE:
The arrest of a Palestinian activist who helped organize campus protests of the war in Gaza has sparked questions about whether foreign students and green card holders are protected against being deported from the U.S.
Mahmoud Khalil was arrested Saturday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Homeland Security officials and President Donald Trump have indicated that the arrest was directly tied to his role in the protests last spring at Columbia University in New York City. Khalil is being held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana. His arrest has drawn criticism that he’s being unfairly and unlawfully targeted for his activism.
On Monday, Columbia undergrad Pearson Lund said he’d like to join campus protests on issues he cares about, but feels he’d risk losing his financial aid. He said Columbia administrators have written about free speech in campus communications, but aren’t taking any actions to allay his fears.
Lund said his grandmother was an immigrant from Portugal. He said the potential stripping of Khalil’s green card concerned even citizens like him.
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