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After about a year in a Texas immigration facility, Leqaa Kordia was freed on a $100,000 bond when government lawyers declined to contest a judge's release order.

Leqaa Kordia, 33, was released on bond after about a year in immigration custody at Prairieland Detention Center in Texas.
An immigration judge had ordered her release on bond three times and she was freed on a $100,000 bond after government lawyers did not challenge the third ruling.
Judge Tara Naslow said she reviewed extensive evidence from Kordia and saw little evidence from the government.
Kordia was hospitalized for three days after a seizure and her lawyers told the court she has a neurological condition that worsened in custody.
Kordia said she plans to go home, hug her mother and continue advocating for people still held at the detention center.
Other protesters tied to the Columbia University demonstrations, including Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi, had been released earlier.

Pro-Palestine protester Leqaa Kordia freed from US immigration detention

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