{"id":8403,"date":"2026-03-24T06:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:58:54","slug":"ice-releases-columbia-student-from-custody-after-trump-mamdani-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/24\/ice-releases-columbia-student-from-custody-after-trump-mamdani-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE releases Columbia student from custody after Trump-Mamdani talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani successfully negotiated the imminent release of Elmina Aghayeva, a Columbia University student detained by ICE, during an unannounced meeting with President Donald Trump. University officials revealed that federal agents gained entry to a residential building without a warrant by falsely claiming they were searching for a missing child. Despite their starkly different political backgrounds, the meeting highlighted an ongoing, unexpected collaboration between the Democratic socialist mayor and the Republican president. While the primary goal of Mamdani&#8217;s visit was to secure federal funding for affordable housing in Queens, the resolution of this high-profile immigration case became the meeting&#8217;s most immediate outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: February 27, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/americas\/20260227-ice-releases-columbia-student-custody-after-trump-mamdani-talks\">france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani successfully negotiated the imminent release of Elmina Aghayeva, a Columbia University student detained by ICE, during an unannounced meeting with President Donald Trump. University officials revealed that federal agents gained entry to a residential building without a warrant by falsely claiming they were searching for a missing child. Despite their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}