Columbia department backs student detained by Trump, urges Ivy League school to act – Middle East Monitor

Columbia University’s philosophy department strongly rebuffed Wednesday the Trump administration’s detention and attempted deportation of one of its students, urging the Ivy League school to come to the assistance of Mohsen Mahdawi, Anadolu news agency reported.

“We express our horror and dismay at the fact that a legal resident of the United States — someone who has been accused of no crime — should be detained in this manner,” it said in a…