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Leqaa Kordia, right, demonstrates with pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters as they gather near a main gate at Columbia University in New York, April 30, 2024, just before New York City police officers cleared the area after a building was taken over by protesters earlier in the day. (AP/Craig Ruttle)
February 10, 2026, 5:19 pm
Palestinian woman detained by ICE in 2025 is hospitalized after seizure in detention
Leqaa Kordia, who was detained last year during a meeting with US immigration officials, maintains that she was targeted for her pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University
By Reuters
Illustrative: Pro-Palestine, anti-Israel demonstrators burn a US-Israel flag during a protest as the Democratic National Convention takes place in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024. (Matthew Hatcher/AFP)
August 21, 2025, 5:38 am
Trump administration to vet visa applicants for ‘anti-Americanism, antisemitic terrorism’
New policy by US Citizenship and Immigration Services cites law barring naturalization of those ‘opposed to government or law, or who favor totalitarian forms of government’
By Reuters
Protesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
June 9, 2025, 11:40 am
Violent protests in Los Angeles after Trump deploys National Guard on streets
Thousands demonstrate, blocking major highway and setting self-driving cars on fire; US president urges local police to make more arrests and ‘bring in the troops’
By JASON DEAREN, jaimie ding and Jake Offenhartz
In this photo taken on Jan. 24, 2019, Denis Wolok, the father of 1-month-old Eva's father, shows the child's US passport during an interview with The Associated Press in Hollywood, Florida (AP Photo/Iuliia Stashevska)
January 25, 2020, 12:36 pm
US moves to restrict entry for pregnant women on ‘birth tourism’
New visa rules aim to minimize number of foreigners who take advantage of American ‘birthright citizenship,’ a particular area of chagrin for Trump
By Matthew Lee and Colleen Long
Illustrative: This April 13, 2009 photo shows an employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, waiting for the front gate to be opened so she can enter. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)
June 13, 2019, 4:21 am
A Jewish lawyer represents clients at the strictest immigration court in the US
Although these impoverished asylum seekers have little chance of winning, for the past two years Marty Rosenbluth has lived in small town Georgia to make their case in person
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A PLO supporter in the West Bank, January 5, 1988. A 50-year-old California man was stripped of his US citizenship on Friday for lying to immigration authorities when he became a citizen about his conviction for an attempted 1988 PLO terrorist bombing. (AP Photo/Anat Givon)
April 27, 2019, 6:17 am
Man convicted of bombing Israeli bus stripped of US citizenship
Fifty-one-year-old Vallmoe Shqaire of California to be imprisoned, deported to Jordan for lying to immigration authorities about his role in 1988 terrorist attack
By AP
Omar Barghouti gives an interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser/File)
April 11, 2019, 9:58 pm
Palestinian BDS founder Omar Barghouti denied entry to US
Advocacy group says Trump administration ‘arbitrarily’ silencing Palestinians over political activities; Strategic Affairs Ministry denies Israel involved in travel ban
By Tamar Pileggi and Raphael Ahren
Blanca Carrasco on a visit to a Sephardi synagogue in Fez, Morocco. (Courtesy)
February 17, 2019, 4:42 am
US crypto-Jews race to reclaim heritage before Spanish citizenship offer ends
A record number of Americans whose Jewish ancestors fled the Inquisition are applying for citizenship as an ‘insurance policy’ against a perceived rise in US anti-Semitism
By Ben Zehavi
Rapper 21 Savage attends the CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund 15th Anniversary Event at Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (Roy Rochlin / Getty Images North America / AFP)
February 5, 2019, 11:30 am
US rapper behind ‘Jewish money’ controversy arrested as illegal immigrant
Music community shocked after US immigration detains 21 Savage, saying he is in fact a British citizen who overstayed his visa
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this September 29, 2018 photo, Hadi Mohammed sits with his 9 year old son Mohammed Ghaleb, as he displays a photo of his son as a baby in Baghdad, in their Lincoln, Nebraska apartment. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
October 7, 2018, 5:29 pm
Under Trump, US admits fewest refugees since 1980, leaving thousands stranded
Families of security guards, translators for US troops in Iraq among those denied entry
By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Colleen Long
In this photo taken on May 2, 2018 Amalija and Viktor Knavs, parents of US First Lady Melania Trump, arrive with their lawyer Michael Wildes (C) at US Citizenship and Immigration Services at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Drew Angerer)
August 10, 2018, 11:17 am
Melania Trump’s parents get US citizenship under program slammed by Trump
Slovenian-born Knavs take oath of citizenship through track vehemently denounced by US president
By AFP
Comedian Jon Stewart takes on Donald Trump during a guest appearance on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' on June 28, 2018.
June 30, 2018, 11:29 pm
Jon Stewart blasts Trump’s ‘gleeful cruelty’ in policy making
Comedian takes on family separation practice, says Americans must keep denouncing the president’s fear and divisiveness
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Activists march and rally against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration's immigration policies, across the street from the ICE offices at Federal Plaza, June 29, 2018 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
June 30, 2018, 5:21 pm
Over 600 marches underway across US over Trump immigration policy
Thousands of protesters take to the streets, motivated by accounts in recent weeks of children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border
By AP
US economist and winner of the Nobel prize in Economics Paul Krugman, center, reacts to questions from journalists in Tokyo, Japan,March 22, 2016. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)
June 25, 2018, 8:09 pm
Paul Krugman says Trump’s immigration rhetoric is a blood libel
Nobel prize-winning economist writes in NY Times column that false claims against immigrants are like the baseless accusations of ritual murder made about Jews
By Ben Sales
Varda Spiegel
June 19, 2018, 1:38 pm
Varda Spiegel
Now is the time to play the Holocaust card
A time when children are torn from their parents is the right time for comparisons to the darkest history
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