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Last protester in detention after Trump's campus crackdown has been released

NPR Topics: News·@TheAssociatedPress·6 months ago
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By The Associated Press Leqaa Kordia, left, embraces friends, family and suppporters after being released from the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, Monday, March 16, 2026. Tony Gutierrez/AP hide caption ALVARADO, Texas — A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration's 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses was freed Monday after a year in custody. Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March. Her detention was linked, in part, to her participation in a protest outside Columbia University in 2024. "I don't know what to say. I'm free! I'm free! Finally, after one year," Kordia, with a beaming smile, told reporters after emerging from the detention center. An immigration judge had ordered her released on bond three times.…

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