Yunseo Chung is on the Run

ICE Targets Another Ivy League Student With Deportation Proceedings.

WASHINGTON—Yunseo Chung, a twenty-one-year-old junior at Columbia University, a legal permanent resident who has called the United States home since she was seven—finds herself a fugitive of sorts, not from justice but from a government that seems determined to redefine it. She is on the run, her whereabouts undisclosed, as federal agents scour dormitories and family homes, wielding administrative warrants and the blunt force of executive power. Her crime? Raising her voice. Her weapon? A constitutionally protected right that has been the bedrock of American democracy since its founding: the right to protest.

Chung’s story, detailed in a lawsuit filed on March 24, 2025, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is a chilling tableau of a nation at a crossroads. She argues that the Trump administration, in its zeal to deport her, is not merely targeting a single college student but waging a broader assault on the First Amendment. Her legal complaint is a cri …