{"id":148251,"date":"2026-02-28T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148251\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:37:19","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-asks-trump-to-dismiss-immigration-cases-against-pro-palestinian-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148251\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani Asks Trump to Dismiss Immigration Cases Against Pro-Palestinian Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aghayeva\u2019s release from ICE custody came shortly after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appealed directly to President Trump, as he made his second visit to the White House since his historic election victory in November. Mamdani also gave White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles a list of four current and former students targeted by federal immigration authorities and asked the administration for help in dismissing their cases. They are Mahmoud Khalil, Yunseo Chung, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Leqaa Kordia \u2014 all detained after they joined pro-Palestine protests. Leqaa Kordia is the only one who remains detained \u2014 nearly one year after her arrest \u2014 at an ICE jail in Texas. We\u2019ll speak with Columbia University graduate student Mohsen Mahdawi later in the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aghayeva\u2019s release from ICE custody came shortly after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appealed directly to President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-148251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148251","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=148251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}