Yunseo Chung, 21, a legal permanent resident who moved to the US from South Korea as a child, had filed a lawsuit alleging immigration officials had executed search warrants at multiple Columbia facilities, including her dormitory. The restraining order comes as another international student studying at Tufts University near Boston was arrested by Immigration officials, according to a statement from the university. It follows the Trump administration's intensified crackdown on what it classifies as antisemitism on US campuses.

One of the highest profile cases thus far involves Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist, who remains in a Louisiana detention facility without charges. Ms Chung's attorney, Ramzi Kassem, called the New York federal judge's ruling "sensible and fair", according to Politico. He said that her client "no longer has to fear" arrest or being sent to a far away prison "simply because she spoke up for Palestinian human rights". The Columbia student's lawsuit also names other students facing deportation, including Cornell doctoral candidate Momodou Taal and Columbia international student Ranjani Srinivasan, whose visa was revoked.

A hearing for Mr Taal's request to block his detention was held last Tuesday. The Tufts University student was arrested outside an off-campus property last Tuesday, and the school had no prior knowledge of it, the university said in its statement. "From what we have been told subsequently, the student's visa status has been terminated, and we seek to confirm whether that information is true." it said. The heightened activity by immigration officials is a part of President Donald Trump's promise to combat antisemitism, written into an executive order in January.

Since then, the administration has revoked $400million in Columbia funding over allegations the university failed to combat antisemitism on its campus, and threatened to do the same to other universities. The administration has also moved to deport multiple students across the country and called for students to "self-deport". Trump officials have cited the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the State Department to deport non-citizens who are "adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests" of the US. (BBC/ Getty Images)