Civil Liberties and Campus Protests

Leqaa Kordia, the last protester held in ICE custody after the Trump-era campus crackdown, was released on March 16, 2026 on a $100,000 bond after DHS declined to appeal an immigration judge’s third bond order, ending about a year in detention. At her release she vowed to keep fighting for others still detained at Prairieland and called the system unjust; her case has drawn scrutiny after the NYPD provided sealed protest-arrest records to federal authorities (telling the city they were needed for a money‑laundering probe) and DHS had previously framed her family remittances as a security concern.