Ms. Chung Is About To Show The World That Kristi Noem Had No Plausible Basis To Grab Her Off The Streets Of Manhattan...

We've all seen it, on video, via TikTok and YouTube and the legacy TV-news stations -- a broad daylight snatch and grab -- by ICE and DHS. Yunseo Chung's a lawful resident student at Columbia, for chrissakes. Tonight, her lawyers have filed to get a look at the (largely bogus) documents ICE says it was relying on, for a warrant to detain her, and search her residence.

This should concern every person in America who believes we all have the right to peaceably oppose the policies of our government. Here's that filing, and a bit:

. . .[We] respectfully request that the Court: (1) unseal the rider, supporting affidavit, application, and any other materials underlying the warrant issued on March 13, 2025, authorizing federal law enforcement to search for and seize documents from Ms. Chung’s Columbia University-owned residence (“the Warrant”); (2) provide those materials to the parties for 24 hours so that the parties may propose limited redactions; and (3) after reviewing and deciding any request for limited redactions, order the release of the materials to the public. . . .

[The Warrant was executed] at Ms. Chung’s Columbia-owned residence, ostensibly seeking documents including any occupancy or lease agreements, travel records, and immigration records. The Warrant cited only one law that had supposedly been violated, 8 U.S.C. § 1324. This provision, known as the “harboring” statute, criminalizes the harboring of persons unlawfully present in the country.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche then publicly stated that Columbia University is under investigation for “harboring and concealing illegal aliens on its campus.” The Warrant would only have been properly supported factually if the materials submitted to the issuing Magistrate Judge, including under oath, stated that Ms. Chung was unlawfully present in the United States. But Ms. Chung is a lawful permanent resident, see Compl. ¶ 23, and Secretary Rubio does not have the unilateral authority to revoke her status, see id. ¶¶ 91-92, 153-75. Ms. Chung remains a lawful permanent resident unless an immigration judge rules otherwise, and a final order of removal ensues.

Until then, Ms. Chung, a lawful permanent resident, cannot be “harbored,” and the statute in question could not have been properly cited to support a warrant to search her residence.

Therefore, it is difficult to imagine how a warrant could have been lawfully obtained to authorize the search of Ms. Chung’s residence in connection with an ostensible investigation into Columbia’s supposed violation of the harboring statute.

The materials underlying the Warrant will supply much needed clarity to Ms. Chung and the public. . . .

Democracy. . . dies. . . in darkness. Let us see them. These are our courts, and our streets, afterall. Onward.

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