Indian scholar ‘self-deports’ from US after visa revoked over Palestine protests

It was not clear if Srinivasan had been arrested within the protests or if she had expressed sympathy for Hamas as a result of lots of the protesters have been solely in opposition to Israel’s assault on Gaza in retribution for the Hamas terrorist assault on it.

Self-deporting – or leaving voluntarily earlier than authorities take motion – avoids the chance of her being placed on a US army plane and despatched residence just like the three planeloads of deportees who arrived in India.

Srinivasan was doing analysis at Columbia’s Graduate Faculty of Structure, Planning and Preservation.

Based on the varsity, she has a bachelor’s diploma from CEPT College in Ahmedabad and acquired her grasp’s diploma from Harvard with Fulbright Nehru and Inlaks Scholarships.

On the varsity web site, she is proven with the gender-neutral “they” pronoun reasonably than she.

The location stated that she had obtained assist from the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard for her analysis, “Gold & Cyanide: Household, Caste, and the Put up-extractive Panorama at Kolar Gold Fields”.

She had additionally labored for an environmental advocacy nonprofit in Washington on “frontier communities in danger from local weather change” and as a researcher for the West Philadelphia Panorama Challenge (WPLP) on the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise.

President Trump’s administration has educated its sights on the Ivy League college, accusing it of failing to stem the protests that it stated veered into anti-Semitism and threatened Jewish college students and school.

It has reduce off $400 million in federal funds to the college.