ICE releases Columbia pupil from custody after Trump-Mamdani talks

[ad_1] New York mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday mentioned President Donald Trump agreed to the discharge of a Columbia College pupil detained by ICE after he raised the case with him in White Home talks.

The undergraduate pupil was arrested Thursday morning when 5 federal immigration brokers entered a Columbia residential constructing with no warrant and beneath false pretences, the college's appearing President Claire Shipman mentioned.

Mamdani mentioned that he had shared his considerations "about Columbia pupil Elmina Aghayeva, who was detained by ICE this morning" throughout the unannounced assembly with Trump.

"He has simply knowledgeable me that she can be launched imminently," he wrote on X.

Aghayeva confirmed her launch in a put up on Instagram.

"I simply obtained out a short time in the past. I'm secure and okay," she wrote.

Mamdani had earlier mentioned he went to Washington to request federal cash to assist construct inexpensive housing within the Queens borough of New York.

A photograph posted on X confirmed Mamdani standing subsequent to a grinning Trump within the Oval Workplace.

Shipman, in a video posted on X, mentioned the brokers had "gained entry by stating they had been police trying to find a lacking baby" to arrest Aghayeva.

"Our safety cameras captured the brokers within the hallway exhibiting footage of the alleged lacking baby," she mentioned.

"The brokers took our pupil. This was a daunting and fast-moving scenario, and completely unacceptable for our college students and employees."

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It was the second White Home go to for Mamdani after a gathering in November when the erstwhile political foes emerged as effusive colleagues bent on mutual help.

Washington watchers had been bracing for sparks to fly when the self-described Democratic socialist met the Republican chief, who had in flip branded the mayor-elect a "communist" and recommended the Ugandan-born New Yorker must be deported.