Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during what was supposed to be a naturalization interview, was ordered released from his detention on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions III ruled the green-card holder, who had been held in the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vt., should be set free after weeks of detention.
Mahdawi is the first foreign student the Trump administration has arrested that has been released by a judge.
“I am saying it clear and loud, to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” he said outside the courthouse, according to media reports.
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