{"id":148077,"date":"2026-02-28T02:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148077\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:44:10","slug":"additional-safety-protocols-after-student-detained-by-ice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148077\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional safety protocols after student detained by ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day after federal immigration agents <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/02\/27\/columbia-university-community-reacts-to-release-of-student-detained-by-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">detained a Columbia University student inside campus housing<\/a>, the university said its tightening safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The changes come after student Ellie Aghayeva was detained for several hours on Thursday by federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>One day after federal immigration agents\u00a0detained a Columbia University student inside campus housing, the university said its tightening safety protocols<br \/>\n<br \/>The changes come after student Ellie Aghayeva was detained for several hours on Thursday by federal agents<br \/>\n<br \/>The university alleges agents gained access, without a judicial warrant, by claiming they were police searching for a missing child<\/p>\n<p>The university alleges agents gained access, without a judicial warrant, by claiming they were police searching for a missing child.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security denied this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are definitely afraid, especially now that we have a few Columbia affiliates that have been detained by the administration,\u201d Tsehai Alfred, the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator, said. \u201cI think yesterday was a striking difference to previous examples of Columbia affiliates like Mahmoud or Moshan Madawi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate student, was detained similarly last year by federal agents inside his off-campus housing.<\/p>\n<p>Since Thursday\u2019s incident, Columbia announced additional public safety protocols and new guidance for staff.<\/p>\n<p>For non-emergency situations, staff are instructed not to allow any law enforcement into non-public buildings without Columbia Public Safety present and guidance from the Office of General Counsel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf five random people walk into a building saying that they were the police \u2026 and got to the individual that they were seeking, what does that mean for other bad actors out there?\u201d Murad Awawdeh, the president of New York Immigration Coalition, said.<\/p>\n<p>Awawdeh said the moment exposed gaps that can only be addressed with clear training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should be thinking about this as if it\u2019s a fire drill. Every single time that there\u2019s a fire drill, everyone knows what to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DHS said the student was detained over a visa issue and released pending a removal hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after federal immigration agents detained a Columbia University student inside campus housing, the university said its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[203,109,25,67,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-148077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-education","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-louis-finley","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}