Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi released from ICE detention

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian Columbia student who had been detained by immigration authorities when he went to his U.S. citizenship interview, has been released after a federal judge's order in Vermont on Wednesday.

Mahdawi was taken into custody on April 16. A judge later issued an order barring the government from removing him from the state or country. 

"Yes you might think I am free, but my freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many other students," Mahdawi said outside the courthouse in Burlington, Vermont, shortly after being released.