Leqaa Kordia, a pro-Palestinian activist, released after a year in ICE custody
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Pro-Palestinian activist was held in immigration detention for a year despite three court orders for her release.
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Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old pro-Palestinian activist from the West Bank, has been released on bond after spending a year in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Kordia was arrested in April 2024 at a pro-Palestine protest outside Columbia University in New York, then taken into ICE custody at a New Jersey office check-in roughly a year later and transferred to a detention facility in Texas. A court had ordered her release three times during her detention, but ICE did not comply with those rulings until now. Her case drew attention from immigrant rights advocates who viewed her prolonged detention despite court orders as a violation of due process and an example of how immigration enforcement can ensnare protest participants.
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