Ranjani Srinivasan
LightNews LightNews
rrr3006.bsky.social
Ranjani Srinivasan
@rrr3006.bsky.social
39 followers 12 following 0 posts
🇵🇸 ✊ Columbia GSAPP
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Ranjani Srinivasan
tanvi.bsky.social
The piece starts with the case of Ranjani Srinivasan, the Indian doctoral student at Columbia who was dis-enrolled after ICE cancelled her status, even though she didn't have to be legally speaking.
Agents returned the next day, March 8th, and, mistaking the flatmate for Srinivasan, insisted through the door that “we were here yesterday, we’re here today, we’re going to be here tonight and tomorrow.” The flatmate sent an email to the university administration that day about how the “harassment” by ICE was affecting her, the international students in the building, and even the building doorman—an immigrant himself. Columbia replied with an acknowledgement of the concerns, but it was not clear that it took steps to address them. Instead, on March 9th, the international office emailed Srinivasan to inform her that not only had ICE terminated her student record and officially cancelled her legal status—which meant she would need to leave the US or risk detention, deportation, and future entry bans—but also that, despite there being no legal requirement to do so, Columbia had also withdrawn her enrollment. She needed to vacate student housing or face “appropriate proceedings,” the email noted. “I was stunned,” Srinivasan told Jewish Currents. “I could not believe that Columbia would allow this to happen.” From that point onward, she said, administrators “cut contact” with her. (Columbia did not respond to a request for comment.) Scared, Srinivasan fled to Canada on March 11th.
April 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reposted by Ranjani Srinivasan
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Second, 8 USC 1324 prohibits harboring some who has “come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law.”

That cannot reasonably be read to apply to people in lawful status, EVEN IF the government has rendered them removable.

An LPR maintains their status until ordered removed!
(ii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that on alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;
May 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM