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No One Is Illegal on Stolen Land!
Another zine from History is What's Happening Now, an indigenous-run archive project.
Includes stories on Palestinian political prisoner Leqaa Kordia and ICE abductions of indigenous people in so-called North America.
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Leqaa Kordia was freed on March 16 after spending more than a year in an ICE jail in Texas; arrested in 2025 in the Trump regime’s campaign to target any who advocate for #Palestine rights.
Born in the occupied #WestBank now lives in #NewJersey. She was arrested in 2024 during the #Gaza #solidarity protests at #ColumbiaUniversity.Part 1
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/3/leqaa_kordia_palestinian_activistPart 2
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/3/freed_from_ice_jail_leqaa_kordia -
@jonesmurphy The lawyer for #LeqaaKordia is probably sizing-up the endowment at #ColumbiaUniversity for her imminent lawsuit.
It’s pretty BIG! 💰💰💰
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Supporters Celebrate Release of Palestinian Leqaa Kordia — But Fight Continues
Kordia can now return to her family after a year in ICE jail, but the Trump administration may continue to target her. -
@tusk81
Alhamdulillah! Mamdani is a magnificent silver-tongued bastard—too bad he can't become President... There MUST be more powerful positions than mayor of Manhattan that we can elect him to. A better world is possible with this man! #Mamdani #FreePalestine #Columbia #LeqaaKordia #NeverBowToFascism #TrumpRegime -
Un an après son arrestation, un juge a ordonné pour la troisième fois la libération de Leqaa Kordia
https://www.chroniquepalestine.com/un-an-apres-arrestation-juge-a-ordonne-pour-troisieme-fois-liberation-leqaa-kordia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-an-apres-arrestation-juge-a-ordonne-pour-troisieme-fois-liberation-leqaa-kordia
Alors qu’un juge de l’immigration ordonne sa libération pour la troisième fois, l’équipe de Leqaa Kordia agit rapidement pour la faire libérer avant que le DHS n’impose un nouveau sursis. Cette militante palestinienne est la
#Politique #Articles #NousRecommandons #Slider #EtatsUnis #Islamophobie #LeqaaKordia #Solidarité -
MJ Letter to LK https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/09/mahmoud-khalil-leqaa-kordia-letter
About LK arrested in March 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/leqaa-kordia-ice-detention-palestine-protest#Columbia #Gaza #ICEout #LeqaaKordia #MahmoudKHalil #Palestine #Solidarity #studentprotests
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CALL FOR LEQAA KORDIA's RELEASE
[this appeal is copied from the March 4 Drop Site Daily on dropsitenews.com]Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old #Palestinian woman from Paterson, New Jersey, has spent nearly a year in #ICE detention in Texas after speaking out against #Israel’s war in #Gaza, despite an #immigration judge twice ruling that she is eligible for release. Drop Site joins the IMEU Policy Project, MPower Action, Jewish Voice for Peace ACT, and the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action in calling for her immediate release. The link below allows users to send emails and make calls to your member of Congress on Leqaa’s behalf:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-free-leqaa-kordia-from-ice-detention?source=direct_link&referrer=group-drop-site-news&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgivebutter.com%2Fsupport-dropsite#FreeLeqaaKordia
#FreePalestine
#AbolishICE
#ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#StopTheDeportations
#LeqaaKordia #Palestine #news #politics #USpol
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#LeqaaKordia talks about being treated like an 'animal' during her unlawful detention at a concentration camp
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Across the West, speaking for Palestine is now a crime
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Across the West, speaking for Palestine is now a crime
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Free Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Woman Who Joined Columbia U. Protest Has Been Detained Since March
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/24/leqaa_kordia
from #DemocracyNow
December 24, 2025Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester #LeqaaKordia, who was arrested at a 2024 Columbia U. #Gaza solidarity protest. The charges were dismissed, but when she went to her #ICE check-in this past March, she was arrested and immediately sent to a detention center in Texas, where she has been held ever since. Although Columbia U. student protesters like #MohsenMahdawi and #MahmoudKhalil have been freed from ICE detention, “her case sort of fell between the cracks,” says Laila El-Haddad, Palestinian writer and journalist from Gaza, who just visited Kordia. She also criticizes the #Trump administration’s effort to “crack down on any dissent and... to weaponize immigration law to silence dissent and to criminalize free speech, especially when that speech relates to #Palestine.”
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Leqaa Kordia’s case, a story of American government cruelty
https://redcircle.com/shows/b6f505a9-f29d-4915-9e94-85182953a0ba/ep/6decc367-2264-4f77-a246-c95bfc12d999 -
#VS wil #Palestijnse #demonstrant het #land uit hebben
#Roep de #minister van #Binnenlandse #Veiligheid van de VS op om #LeqaaKordia #onmiddellijk #vrij te laten.
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WTF!!! She Sent Money to Family in #Gaza. #ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports #Hamas.
To keep her in detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to #LeqaaKordia’s remittances to family in #Palestine.
Shawn Musgrave
October 2 2025, 7:00 a.m.Excerpt: " 'She didn’t always have a lot of money to send, but she sent whatever she could,' wrote one of Kordia’s cousins, who lives in Florida, in another affidavit.
It took weeks for Kordia’s legal team to track down family members who received remittances as far back as 2017. Some were still in Gaza and the West Bank, while others had evacuated to Egypt and Dubai." 'In 2022, during one of the aggressions in Gaza, my building was destroyed and we needed money to rebuild,' wrote Kordia’s aunt, who ran a hair salon out of her home in Gaza before fleeing to Cairo. 'My sister was in great need after that incident, so I asked Leqaa for her assistance in sending money,' Kordia’s mother explained.
"After Kordia’s attorneys submitted these sworn statements, ICE attorneys switched arguments, and they barely addressed her wire transfers at a hearing in late August, according to Sarah Sherman-Stokes, one of Kordia’s attorneys.
" 'In the blink of an eye, it became a non-issue,' Sherman-Stokes, a professor at Boston University’s immigrants’ rights clinic, told The Intercept. 'Because it was such a charade from the beginning.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/02/gaza-remittance-wire-transfer-hamas-ice/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/BbNhi#ICESucks #USPol #WorldPol #IndefiniteDetention #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #EndTheGenocide
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Soon after the regime's ICE abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, news broke that Trump's DHS had targeted two other students who had protested or spoken out online against Israel's genocide in Gaza and attended Columbia university; arresting Leqaa Kordia for overstaying her student visa, and revoking the visa of PhD candidate Ranjani Srinivasan, who ultimately self-deported (so, fled) to Canada. At roughly the same time, it was reported that DHS had executed two search warrants for rooms on the Columbia campus.
1) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnzp4ye5zo
US arrests second pro-Palestinian Columbia University protester
"US immigration authorities have announced the arrest of a second activist who participated in pro-Palestinian protests last spring at Columbia University in New York City.
Leqaa Kordia, who is a Palestinian and from the West Bank, was arrested in New Jersey, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on Friday.
The statement said another student, Ranjani Srinivasani, who has Indian citizenship, chose to "self-deport" by leaving the US earlier this week.
This follows the arrest of Columbia campus activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday in New York before being flown to a jail in Louisiana."
‘Columbia let me down’: How Indian scholar expelled by Trump fled the US
"It was the start of 10 days of confusion and fear for Srinivasan that culminated in her name and grainy airport camera image making global headlines after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused her of being a “terrorist sympathiser” on X.
By then, Srinivasan was in Canada, staying with friends and family, having flown out of New York on March 11, four days before Noem’s post, after concluding that she could be arrested – even though the US government has still not made clear whether she is accused of any crime. She rejects the suggestion that she is supportive of terrorists, but assumes her visa was revoked because of online support for Palestine as Israel’s brutal war on Gaza continues."
3) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/homeland-security-search-columbia-students
Homeland security agents search two Columbia University students’ rooms
"Agents from the Department of Homeland Security conducted searches in two Columbia University students’ rooms on Thursday night, marking the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on some American universities.
Also marking that escalation: Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, said on Friday that the federal justice department would examine whether last year’s student protests at Columbia over Israel’s military strikes on Gaza violated terrorism laws. Blanche also said the justice department would examine whether Columbia’s handling of the demonstrations violated civil rights law as Donald Trump’s White House follows through on its self-stated “mission to end antisemitism in this country”.
The university’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, addressed the school community in a statement, saying she was “heartbroken” to inform them that “there were federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences” on Thursday night.
Armstrong confirmed that no arrests were made, no items were removed and no further action was taken at the private Ivy League college in New York."
Please not that while Kordia's student visa had indeed expired, and the warrants executed at the Columbia residences were signed by a judge, the larger pattern of using DHS, ICE, and the regime's immigration powers to suppress civil rights, terrorize the students of Columbia, and target international students protesting a US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, was already quite obvious by this point; a fact that the Trump administration didn't deny, but instead bragged about.
#Fascism #Trump #ICE #Columbia #Genocide #Israel #Palestine #CivilRights #CampusProtests #LeqaaKordia #RanjaniSrinivasan
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Last Thursday Columbia University began suspending and expelling students who the school suspected were involved in legal protests.
It's unclear if Kordia was expelled but ICE cited an allegedly expired student visa as the reason for her arrest.
The expulsions were in response to a Trump threat to cut federal funds to the university which account for 1/4th of the schools operating budget.
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A second Palestinian Columbia University student has been arrested by DHS/ICE over the weekend.
Leqaa Kordia is from the West Bank and in any sensible world a democratic country would not deport a person to an active genocide but that appears to be what the Trump administration is set to do.
#FreePalestine #FreeLeqaaKordia #LeqaaKordia #columbiauniveristy #ICE #DHS #genocide
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CW: US Politics
Does anyone have any information about Leqaa Kordia beyond what is in DHS's press release?
Every source I have seen is just repeating it. -
'A second person has been arrested by immigration officials after participating in pro-Palestinian protests at #ColumbiaUniversity...
#LeqaaKordia, a #Palestinians from the #WestBank, was arrested by ICE for overstaying her expired... student visa... terminated on Jan 26, '22, and (ed. BECAUSE) she was arrested for involvement in protests at Columbia in April '24...'
Second person arrested after participating in anti-Israel protests at #Columbia
https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/second-person-arrested-after-participating-in-pro-palestinian-protests-at-columbia-university-department-of-homeland-security-immigration-officials-student-visa-green-card-mahmoud-khalil-deportation-president-donald-trump-israel-hamas-war