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Leqaa Kordia, Last Detainee From Trump Campus Crackdown, Released on $100,000 Bond

The government declined to appeal a third bond order, allowing her release as immigration proceedings continue.

Leqaa Kordia, left, moves to embrace friends, family and suppporters after being released from the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
FILE - Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk reads from a prepared statement following a court hearing outside the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Dec. 4, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham, File)
FILE - Mohsen Mahdawi speaks during an interview at the ACLU of Vermont on May 8, 2025, in Montpelier, Vt. (AP Photo/Alex Driehaus, File)

Overview

  • Detained since March 13, 2025 after a routine ICE check-in in New Jersey, Kordia had been held at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas.
  • Immigration Judge Tara Naslow-Nahas granted bond for a third time and criticized the government’s case, describing its arguments against release as disingenuous and its evidence as minimal.
  • DHS maintains Kordia overstayed a student visa and flagged her financial transfers, while her attorneys say the payments were to family in Gaza and note her 2024 protest charges were dismissed and sealed.
  • Kordia’s lawyers say she suffered a seizure in custody in February and was chained to a hospital bed during treatment, highlighting continued concerns about detention conditions; DHS says detainees receive emergency medical care.
  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he raised her case with President Trump last month, and Kordia has now returned to New Jersey as her immigration case proceeds.