Zohran Mamdani: “ICE detained a Columbia University student as part of a…”

“For example, in that last meeting, it was a meeting we mostly spoke about this housing development. But over the course of the meeting, I did mention that just that morning, that ICE detained a Columbia University student as part of a larger trend of five individuals being detained in or around Columbia University. I gave him a list of those five. Thirty minutes after the meeting, he called me and said he had now made the decision to release her.” (07:32–07:39)

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