Columbia Activist Who Endorsed Hamas's 'Anticolonial Liberation Movement' Self-Deports After Trump Admin Pulls Visa
Ranjani Srinivasan signed letter accusing Israel of 'settler colonial violence' two months after Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack
Jessica Costescu
March 14, 2025
A Columbia University doctoral student who expressed support for the "anticolonial liberation movement in Palestine" used the Trump administration’s revamped "CBP Home" app to self-deport to Canada about a week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday.
Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian national and doctoral candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation was "involved in activities supporting Hammas [sic], a terrorist organization," according to the DHS announcement. The department shared footage from Tuesday of Srinivasan using the "CBP Home" app, the Trump administration’s newly transformed version of the Biden-era "CBP One" app that aims to streamline the self-deportation of illegal immigrants.
"We will continue to look for people that we would never have allowed into this country on student visas had we known they were going to do what they’ve done, but now that they’ve done it, we’re gonna get rid of them," Rubio told reporters Friday morning from the G7 Summit in Canada. "When they said they were coming here to be students, they didn’t say they were coming here to occupy university buildings and vandalize them and tear them apart and hold campuses hostage. If they had told us that, we would never have given them a student visa."
"In the days to come, you should expect more visas will be revoked as we identify people that we should never have allowed in because they lied to us," Rubio added. "Every time we have a chance to revoke them, we will, because it’s not in the national interest of the United States for them to be here," he added.
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