It's the Brian Larishell on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

There have been so many immigration, detention, and deportation stories this year,

raising multiple legal and constitutional questions.

We will talk now with the subject of one of the biggest.

Mosen Madawi was a Columbia University senior and a legal permanent resident of the United States

when he was detained by ICE early this year.

Originally from the West Bank, Madawi co-founded the Palestinian Student

Union at Columbia. He was a leader in the pro-Palestinian protests at the school. He was also

president of the Columbia University Buddhist Association. Madabi was detained in April when he

showed up as scheduled to take his citizenship exam.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio himself published an alleged reason they wanted to deport Madawi.

Rubio said, quote, the activities and presence of Madawi in the United States undermines

U.S. policy to combat anti-S.

And that Madawi's involvement in the Columbia

protest could, quote, potentially undermine the peace process underway in the Middle East.

The grounds for his detention, as claimed by the government, were based on the Immigration

and Nationality Act of 1952.

The act says, an alien whose presence are activities in the United States, the Secretary of State,

has reasonable grounds to believe would have potential serious adverse foreign policy consequences

for the United States is deportable. That's the central quote from that law

that they were citing. So Madawi went to federal court seeking to be released in a case now known

as Madawi versus Trump. And the court did release him in time to attend graduation at Columbia in May.

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