Posted on March 14, 2025

Pro-Hamas Foreign Student Uses Trump’s Self-Deportation App to Leave U.S.

John Binder, Breitbart, March 14, 2025

A foreign student at Columbia University involved in pro-Hamas protests on campus used President Donald Trump’s self-deportation app to leave the United States, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed on Friday.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Ranjani Srinivasan, a foreign student from India, had her F-1 student visa revoked on March 5 due to her involvement with pro-Hamas protests {snip}

{snip} Srinivasan used Trump’s self-deportation app to leave the U.S. on March 11. {snip}

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Meanwhile, DHS announced the arrest of F-1 visa-holder Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, for overstaying her visa which was terminated on Jan. 26, 2022, for failure to attend courses at Columbia.

In April of last year, Kordia was arrested in New York City for her involvement in pro-Hamas protests at Columbia.

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