Fear and Loathing: Yunseo Chung, Columbia University student, green card

Yunseo Chung was seven when she came to America. By twenty, she had a Columbia University ID, a green card, and a head full of ideas about democracy, civil rights, and peaceful protest.

Big mistake.

In March 2025, Yunseo joined a sit-in at Barnard College. No broken windows. No masks. No Molotovs. Just students in chairs, arms linked, holding signs about Palestine and Columbia’s complicity.

Four days later, ICE showed up.

They knocked on her parents’ door first. Then her dorm. They carried a “harboring” warrant — a flimsy legal fig leaf once used for smugglers, now rebranded for students who sit too still and speak too clearly. DHS called her a “foreign policy threat.”

Translation: she embarrassed them.

No hearing. No charges. Just a green card marked for deletion. She went underground. Lawyers stepped in. A federal judge issued a restraining order, temporarily blocking her arrest and demanding answers.

The government offered none. Just silence and red tape.

Yunseo wasn’t undocumented. She wasn’t violent. She was a straight-A student who took the First Amendment seriously — until it kicked her in the teeth.

She’s still in hiding. Still waiting.

Because when you protest injustice in Trump’s America, they don’t just ignore you.

They hunt you.

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Say their names! Remember them!

Rümeysa Öztürk. Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Badar Khan Suri. Yunseo Chung. Ranjani Srinivasan. Kseniia Petrova. Mohsen Mahdawi. Momodou Taal. Felipe Zapata Velásquez. Jerce Reyes Barrios. Francisco García Casique. Andry Hernández Romero. Jessica Brösche. Alireza Doroudi.

These are the names they are trying to vanish.

We won’t let them.

Not today. Not ever.

If they can disappear them, they can disappear you.

New York Times: Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate Yunseo Chung

The administration has been seeking to arrest and deport Yunseo Chung, who immigrated from South Korea as a child, after she participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

The judge, Naomi Buchwald, said during a hearing on Tuesday that “nothing in the record” indicated that Ms. Chung posed a danger to the community or a “foreign-policy risk” or had communicated with terrorist organizations.

Ms. Chung is a legal permanent resident. She was not a prominent participant in demonstrations on Columbia’s campus; she was arrested along with several other students this month at a protest at Barnard College, the Manhattan university’s sister school.

Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate – The New York Times

Wall Street Journal: 21-Year-Old Columbia Student Protester Sues Trump to Stop Deportation

Homeland Security seeks to arrest the green-card holder, originally from South Korea who has lived in the U.S. since age 7

Her crime? She attended a sit-in on March 5, was arrested, given a citation, and released.

21-Year-Old Columbia Student Protester Sues Trump to Stop Deportation – WSJ