Another Columbia student targeted by ICE says she wasn’t involved in protests on the night of her arrest

Days after federal immigration agents showed up to her apartment prompting her to leave the country out of fear she would be taken into custody, Ranjani Srinivasan is disputing the Trump administration’s account of her story.

Days after federal immigration agents showed up to Ranjani Srinivasan’s apartment – prompting her to leave the country out of fear she would be taken into custody – the student is disputing the Trump administration’s account of her story. Srinivasan, 37, an Indian national and Fulbright Scholarship recipient at Columbia University, says she is being targeted for exercising her right to free speech. Department of Homeland Security officials identified her last week as one of two more Columbia University students they targeted for immigration action as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on international students who participated in protests against the Israel-Hamas war. Srinivasan has been in the United States since 2016, when she enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard University. Srinivasan’s attorneys said she attended a handful of protests. But her attorneys say she did not participate in a protest last year in which students occupied Hamilton Hall, leading to dozens of arrests.