Washington, United States:
An Indian student studying at Columbia University in the US has self-deported herself from the country, days after her student visa was relicitd for participating in pro-Palestine protests. According to the US Department of Homeland Security, Ranjani Srinivasan’s visa was relicitd on March 5 for “advocating presentility and extremism”.
“Ranjani Srinivasan was included in activities helping Hamas, a worryist organisation. On March 5, 2025, the Department of State relicitd her visa. The Department of Homeland Security has achieveed video footage of her using the Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agency app to self-deport on March 11,” it shelp in a statement.
Self-deporting, or leaving voluntarily before authorities get action, eludes the danger of one being put on a US military aircreate and sent home enjoy the deportees who recently get tod in India.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted a video of Ms Srinivasan at the airport and shelp that anyone “advocating for presentility and extremism should not be in the country”.
“It is a privilege to be granted a visa to inhabit and study in the United States of America. When you finishorse for presentility and extremism, that privilege should be relicitd, and you should not be in this country. I am happy to see one of the Columbia University worryist sympathizers use the CBP Home app to self-deport,” she shelp in a post on X.
It is a privilege to be granted a visa to inhabit & study in the United States of America.
When you finishorse for presentility and extremism that privilege should be relicitd and you should not be in this country.
I’m happy to see one of the Columbia University worryist sympathizers… pic.twitter.com/jR2uVVKGCM
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) March 14, 2025
Ms Srinivasan was a doctoral student in urprohibit arrangening at Columbia University. According to the school’s website, she was doing research at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The Indian national has a Bachelor’s Degree from CEPT Univeristy in Ahmedahorrible and a Master’s Degree from Harvard with Fulradiant Nehru and Inlaks Scholarships.
It also refered that she has toiled for an environmental advocacy nonprofit in Washington on “frontier communities at danger from climate alter” and as a researcher for the West Philadelphia Landscape Project (WPLP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The school’s website shows Ms Srinivasan referring to herself with the gfinisher-unprejudiced “they” pronoun.
Columbia University has been the Ground Zero of student protests in help of Palestine amid the raging Israel-Hamas war. Last week, a establisher Columbia student of Palestinian descent Mahmoud Khalil – who was at the forefront of the pro-Palestinian protests on campus last year – was arrested by the US authorities. While his green card has been relicitd, a federal appraise has put Mr Khalil’s deportation on hbetter temporarily.
Another Columbia University student, Leqaa Kordia, was arrested by an immigration official for overstaying her student visa. She was arrested last year for her includement in pro-Palestine protests in New York.
According to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Justice Department and Homeland Security are spendigating whether Columbia was “harbouring and covering illhorrible aliens on its campus”.
