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Another pro-Palestine Columbia student protester was detained by federal immigration authorities in Vermont on Monday, amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on alleged Hamas sympathizers who pose potential threats to national security.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian-born green card holder living in Vermont, was detained while attending an immigration interview at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Colchester, Vermont, according to a court filing challenging his arrest.

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The arrest has been condemned as «immoral» and «illegal» by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont.

The Trump administration has been cracking down on widespread antisemitism on college campuses, following years of pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian protests disrupting classes across the country.

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Another pro-Palestine Columbia student protester was detained by federal immigration authorities in Vermont on Monday, amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on alleged Hamas sympathizers who pose potential threats to national security. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images AP Images)

A video posted to social media on Monday appeared to show Mahdawi being escorted out of the building in handcuffs by law enforcement officials, including one wearing a jacket identifying him as a Homeland Security Investigations agent.

The Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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According to the court filing, Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union at Columbia in the fall of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack. He founded the group with Mahmoud Khalil, another pro-Palestinian activist who was detained by federal immigration officials under the Trump administration earlier this year.

The document says that Mahdawi was studying philosophy at Columbia and expected to graduate from the university in May. It also says that Mahdawi was an organizer of the protests at Columbia until he stepped back from leadership this March. The filing claims that he is a «lawful permanent resident» of the United States.

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Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil talks to the press during the press briefing organized by Pro-Palestinian protesters who set up a new encampment at Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus on Friday evening, in New York City, United States on June 01, 2024.  (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

U.S. District Judge William Sessions ruled on Monday that Mahdawi cannot be removed from the U.S. or the state of Vermont pending further court review.

Mahdawi’s arrest was summarily condemned by Vermont’s two U.S. senators, Bernie Sanders, who identifies as an independent, and Peter Welch, a Democrat, as well as the state’s sole member of Congress Rep. Becca Balint, a Democrat.

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The three issued a joint statement on Monday identifying Mahdawi as a resident of White River Junction, Vermont.

The statement said Mahdawi walked into an immigration office for «what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process» and was instead «arrested and removed in handcuffs by plainclothes, armed, individuals with their faces covered.»

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A student protester waves a large Palestinian flag at their encampment on the Columbia University campus

A student protester waves a large Palestinian flag at their encampment on the Columbia University campus, Monday, April 29, 2024, in New York. Protesters of the war in Gaza who are encamped at Columbia University have defied a deadline to disband with chants, clapping and drumming.  (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

The statement claimed, «these individuals refused to provide any information as to where he was being taken or what would happen to him.»

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«This is immoral, inhumane, and illegal,» said the three. «Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the United States, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.»

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Una joven quedó paralítica después de que un hombre se tirara de un tercer piso y cayera sobre ella

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Grace Spence Green sufrió un accidente que cambió su vida por completo. En 2018 un hombre saltó desde el tercer piso de un shopping de Londres con la intención de suicidarse y cayó sobre ella provocándole lesiones irreversibles en la columna que le impidieron volver a caminar.

Todo pasó el 17 de octubre cuando su amiga pasó a buscarla por su casa y la acercó hasta el centro comercial, se despidieron junto a la escalera mecánica y ella se fue rumbo a la facultad. Estaba en cuarto año de la carrera de medicina. En aquel entonces tenía 22 años y muchas metas por cumplir. Sin embargo, de repente sintió un golpe y cuando despertó ya nada fue igual.

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Cuando recuperó el conocimiento estaba tendida en el piso, rodeada de gente y a su lado el hombre que había provocado el accidente. “Recuerdo gritar y no poder sentir mis piernas“, relató en un artículo publicado por la BBC.

Ella no entendía nada, pero la gente le explicó que la habían golpeado y al hombre le decían que se había caído. Más tarde se enteraría de que en realidad había saltado voluntariamente desde 40 metros de altura y había aterrizado sobre su espalda.

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El hombre se tiró desde el tercer piso y cayó sobre ella. (Foto: Farid Qureshi a través de BBC)

Grace fue trasladada al hospital donde atendieron la emergencia y minutos más tarde estaban allí sus papás, su pareja y sus amigos. Los médicos le explicaron que en el impacto su columna vertebral se se había quebrado en varios puntos, provocándole la parálisis.

Como estudiante de medicina, tenía conocimiento sobre ese tipo de lesiones, pero el shock que atravesaba le impedía asimilar lo que estaba sucediendo. “No soy discapacitada, no voy a estar en una silla de ruedas. Esa no soy yo”, se repetía a sí misma constantemente.

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Lo que le tocó vivir le hizo darse cuenta de que tenía un enorme prejuicio hacía las personas con discapacidad. “Pensaba que las personas discapacitadas tenían menos calidad de vida porque eso era lo que me habían enseñado”, reveló.

El shopping de Londres donde ocurrió todo. (Foto: Reuters)

El shopping de Londres donde ocurrió todo. (Foto: Reuters)

Cuando vio las imágenes de la resonancia, fue un golpe de realidad. Al observar ese estudio con ojo médico, entendió que la pesadilla que estaba viviendo era una realidad. Entonces, asimiló que a partir de ese momento iba a necesitar una silla de rudas para tener autonomía.

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Comencé a seguir a personas discapacitadas en las redes sociales y fue muy importante para mí verlos publicando sobre su vida normal y pensar que yo podría tenerla también”, contó y dijo que la verdadera revelación fue cuando conoció a un médico que era usuario de silla de ruedas, porque le hizo ver que ella podía serlo también.

Grace fue a sesiones de rehabilitación y aprendió a usar la silla de ruedas. (Foto: Instagram/@gracesg)

Grace fue a sesiones de rehabilitación y aprendió a usar la silla de ruedas. (Foto: Instagram/@gracesg)

Así fue como retomó sus estudios después de mantenerlos un año en pausa: “Tener esta cicatriz tan visible me ayuda en mi trabajo porque es obvio que he sido una paciente, y me doy cuenta de que los pacientes son mucho más abiertos conmigo”, dijo sobre sus experiencias en el consultorio.

Qué pasó con el hombre que cayó del tercer piso del shopping

Grace sabe muy poco del hombre que cayó sobre ella y aseguró que no tiene interés en averiguar más. “Creo que la gente busca algún tipo de justicia restaurativa o ver si lo perdoné. Pero no lo perdoné porque no existía ningún enojo, para empezar”, señaló.

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Me dijeron que había saltado, luego fue a la cárcel y más tarde fue deportado. Y eso me molestó porque no quería que hubiera más ramificaciones de este hecho”, relató y contó que si bien muchas personas esperan que ella sienta algún tipo de resentimiento contra él, ella no lo experimenta. “La aleatoriedad de lo que pasó fue tal que me ayudó a no sentir ninguna ira. Pero la gente a menudo no lo entiende”, relató.

Pasé por muchos ‘qué hubiera pasado si…’. ¿Qué hubiera pasado si hubiera estado allí dos minutos antes o dos minutos después? ¿Qué hubiera ocurrido si…? Me di cuenta de que probablemente él estaría muerto si no hubiera frenado su caída” reflexionó y concluyó: “También me hizo pensar: ¿y qué tal si me hubiera muerto ese día?“.

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Federal judge partially blocks law banning adults from helping minors get out-of-state abortions

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A federal judge has blocked a portion of a Tennessee law that made it a crime for adults to help minors obtain out-of-state abortions without parental consent. 

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Known for prohibiting «abortion trafficking of a minor,» the law, enacted in 2024 by Republican Gov. Bill Lee, with support from the GOP-controlled legislature, criminalizes certain behavior toward pregnant, unemancipated minors by adults who are not their parents or legal guardians who help them receive abortions – even if the abortion is legal in another state. 

U.S. Circuit Judge Julia Gibbons, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, took issue with the law’s «recruitment provision,» which criminalizes giving information to minors about how to receive an abortion out of state or helping minors make travel plans. In a summary judgment Friday, Gibbons agreed the provision violates the First Amendment because it «prohibits speech encouraging lawful abortion while allowing speech discouraging lawful abortion.» 

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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti leaves a press conference discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision that upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender transition treatments for minors in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (The Tennessean )

«That is impermissible viewpoint discrimination, which the First Amendment rarely tolerates – and does not tolerate here,» Gibbons, who sits on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote.

Gibbons permanently blocked enforcement of the provision banning encouraging a minor to seek a legal out-of-state abortion. 

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«The recruitment provision targets speech because of its message – that abortion is safe, common and normal – and available in certain states – and is presumptively unconstitutional,» the judge added.

Gibbons noted that she was brought in to hear this lower court case after four judges from the Middle District of Tennessee recused themselves. If Tennessee appeals the decision, the case will advance to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

The Tennessee attorney general has already appealed a November decision by U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger that temporarily blocked the recruitment provision. That appeal remains pending in the Sixth Circuit Court. 

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The case was brought by Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn, who is a licensed social worker, and Rachel Welty, a Nashville attorney and pro-abortion advocate. 

«Because plaintiffs wish to speak about legal abortions and seek to help minors obtain legal, out-of-state abortions, their intended speech is protected under the First Amendment,» Gibbons wrote.

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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the anti-abortion trafficking law last year. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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In response to the decision, Welty and Behn’s lead counsel, Daniel A. Horwitz, said Gibbons’ «thoughtful and well-reasoned opinion protects the right of all Tennesseans to share truthful information about abortion without fear that crusading prosecutors will try to punish them criminally for doing so.»

«It also affirms that the government has no authority to enact overbroad laws that criminalize pure speech based on the government’s disagreement with a speaker’s point of view,» he added in a statement. «This is a major victory for Ms. Welty, Representative Behn, and all Tennesseans who believe that the government has no right to prosecute citizens for sharing truthful information.»

In the final decision, Gibbons, however, rejected the plaintiffs’ claims that the law is too vague to be constitutional under the Due Process Clause. The judge sided with the state on that matter, saying the law is sufficiently specific in what behavior is forbidden. Gibbons did not block portions of the law criminalizing physically transporting minors across state lines to receive an abortion or harboring a minor for the purpose of helping them receive an abortion. 

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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, left, with Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, R-Franklin, look on during a press conference discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision which upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender transition treatments for minors at the state capitol on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (The Tennessean )

«The court grants summary judgment for the plaintiffs on their free speech claims and enjoins enforcement of the recruiting prong of the statute,» Gibbons wrote. «The statute is not, however, void for vagueness. The court therefore grants summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff’s vagueness claim.»

The law does not apply to the minor’s parent or legal guardian, licensed media providers acting in emergency situations, or law enforcement acting within official duties. 

Violations constitute a Class A Misdemeanor punishable by up to 11 months and 29 days in jail or a fine of up to $2,500. The statute provides that violators «may be held liable in a civil action for the wrongful death of an unborn child who was aborted.» 

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After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Tennessee enforced a «trigger law,» effectively banning abortions in most cases, with limited exceptions. 

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Delta plane aborts takeoff in Mexico City after plane nearly lands on top of aircraft

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A Delta Air Lines passenger jet aborted takeoff this week in Mexico City after its flight crew observed another plane landing in front of it on the same runway. 

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The incident Monday involving Delta Flight 590 happened just days after a pilot of a SkyWest Airlines flight operated by Delta Air Lines was forced to perform an «aggressive maneuver» to avoid a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber. Another Delta flight also experienced an apparent engine fire shortly after departing from Los Angeles last week, forcing it to turn around. 

«Because nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people, Delta will fully cooperate with authorities as the circumstances around this flight are investigated,» a Delta spokesperson told Fox News Digital regarding the Mexico City incident. «We appreciate the flight crew’s actions to maintain situational awareness and act quickly – part of Delta’s extensive training.» 

The spokesperson said the Boeing 737-800 plane, carrying 144 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants, was initiating its takeoff process for Atlanta Monday morning when the flight crew spotted another plane landing in front of them. That plane was identified in media reports as an Embraer E190 operated by Aeromexico. 

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A Delta Air Lines airplane is seen at Benito Juarez international airport in Mexico City, Mexico, on Jan. 19, 2023.  (Reuters/Henry Romero)

The flight crew safely stopped the takeoff and returned to a gate at the airport, according to the spokesperson. 

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Then after taking on additional fuel and consulting with Delta safety and flight operations officials, the plane left Mexico City for Georgia about three hours later. 

The Delta spokesperson also said the airline filed reports with aviation authorities in Mexico as well as the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. 

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A Delta plane approaches for landing at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City on July 22, 2025.  (Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images)

Officials said Delta Flight 590 and Aeromexico Flight 1631 were just 200 feet apart at the time of the incident, with the Delta aircraft only reaching speeds of about 60 mph before braking, according to WSB-TV. 

Aeromexico did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday from Fox News Digital. 

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Video shows flames shooting from a Delta Air Lines plane as it departed Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, July 18. (LA Flights)

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«We are working closely with the corresponding authorities to conduct a detailed investigation,» a spokesperson told Simple Flying. «At Aeromexico, the safety of our customers and employees is, and will always be, our highest priority.» 


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