Srinivasan’s situation is part of a broader crackdown by the Trump administration on pro-Palestinian demonstrators through the use of federal immigration powers. She is one of several noncitizens at Columbia University who have been targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent days.

As federal immigration agents turned up at her doorsteps for two consecutive days, Ranjani Srinivasan from Columbia University, who deported herself from the US last week after a fellow Palestinian student was detained,