Palestinian Activist Leqaa Kordia Released After Year in U.S. Immigration Custody

Last detainee from Trump’s 2025 pro-Palestinian campus crackdown freed after a year

For Leqaa Kordia, her newfound freedom means little to her until “everybody is free." “There is a lot of injustice in this place,” Kordia told reporters after emerging from a U.S. immigration detention centre in Texas on Monday. “There are a lot of people that shouldn’t be here in the first place. We’re going to keep fighting for them.”

Palestinian woman released by ICE after year: "I'm not free until we all are"

Palestinian-American Leqaa Kordia has been released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after being held in an ICE prison for a year. But she says she is not free. Not yet. Kordia was one of around 100 victims arrested for peacefully protesting outside Columbia University against Israel’s genocide in Gaza in 2024. No one was charged. But ICE then imprisoned her in March 2025 on the ridiculous grounds that Homeland Security claimed she w…

Last pro-Palestinian protester detained in Trump's campus crackdowns is released by ICE

(RNS) — Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman who has lived in New Jersey for a decade, was detained last March after protesting near Columbia University against Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza.

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.

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia released from US detention

A Palestinian woman was released on bond from a US immigration detention centre in Texas after a judge's order, the last pro-Palestinian activist held under the Trump administration's crackdown on protests against Israel's war in Gaza. Leqaa Kordia, 33, who was raised in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, left the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on Monday after more than a year there and was returning to her family in New Jersey, h…

She Was Just Released After a Full Year in ICE Detention. They Never Even Charged Her with a Crime.

Some uncharitable souls have characterized the Trump administration as “vindictive” in its use of the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arbitrarily punish those who aren’t American citizens, if those people happen to espouse any opinions that the federal government doesn’t care for. But who would say such a thing, when the people detained by ICE for attending a protest are eventually released? You k…