Columbia student Yunseo Chung, 21, who has learned the Trump administration plans to deport her, says her free speech rights are being threatened so she has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to remain in the United States.
A story by The Hill, which is mostly sympathetic to her, says Chung is a native of South Korea but has been in the U.S. since age 7. She is a green card holder with permanent resident status.
Farther down in the Hill story, it vaguely states she participated in a March 5 protest where she was arrested for “obstruction of governmental administration.”
However, left out of that story is that Chung and several other students have been suspended from Columbia after they illegally occupied the campus library at nearby Barnard College.
A more detailed story by The Washington Free Beacon says the students, including Chung, are also charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing. Police arrested them when they were told to leave but refused to do so, the story says.
The Hill story also says Chung and other students are being targeted for participating in “pro-Palestinian” protests, but an X post by a Jewish student at Columbia says the students were handing out pro-Hamas propaganda (pictured above) about the terrorist group’s “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.”
That is the terrorist group’s name for its surprise Oct. 7 attack in northern Israel.
Campus Reform editor Zachary Marschall tells AFN he supports what the Trump administration is doing to pro-Hamas supporters who are foreign students.
“The student is erroneously arguing that this is a free speech issue,” he says. “It is not a free speech issue. Free speech ends when you start supporting terrorism."
