The Trump administration began a crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses over a year ago. The last person detained was Palestinian woman Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman and daughter of a U.S. citizen, who had been arrested at a 2024 demonstration outside Columbia University. Despite this, her immigration case remains ongoing. Other students and scholars were deported or left the U.K. after learning their visas had been revoked. Mahmoud Khalil was the first person whose arrest became public, but was released in June after missing the birth of his first child. Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey, was detained in March 2025 and later released in May. Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown University scholar from India, was arrested outside his Virginia home after teaching a weekly class on minority rights.