president Trump last night announced a new travel ban from 12 countries that he says pose a risk to America some are Middle Eastern countries like Afghanistan Iran and Yemen haiti is on the list but most are African countries including Sudan Chad the Republic of Congo Libya Somalia and others the president said these are countries without proper vetting or screening processes which is why he says they pose a danger to the US president Trump enacted a similar ban in his first term that was called the Muslim ban referring to the population most impacted by it the move comes as arrests and deportations continue across the state and nation here in New Jersey protesters gathered today in support of a Patterson resident who was arrested after overstaying her student visa but her family says she was targeted for participating in pro Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year senior correspondent Brenda Flanigan has more on her story and the protests around her arrest we will not be silent protesters rallied in front of Delaney Hall in ICE detention center in New York to show solidarity with Laka Cordia of Patterson the young Palestinian woman got picked up by ICE in March charged with overstaying her student visa and then flown to a federal holding facility in Texas she speaks of course of inhumane conditions in which the cells are overcrowded she's been sleeping on floors cockroaches um as a Muslim she hasn't been given her religious accommodations space to pray we are here to say what happened to Laha is not an expectation an an exception it is a warning as a Palestinian community we live fear live this fear every day this is not abstract this is real it's personal we are watching our people disappear cordia drew renewed ICE scrutiny a year after she joined pro Palestinian protests outside the gates of Colombia University she got arrested then but officials dropped the charges her attorney says the Trump administration's focus on Palestinians protesting in the US is what revived interest in Cordia's case those are the folks that the Trump administration has particularly targeted and they've particularly targeted them individually and specifically not only in the media but also through the actions that they've pursued in court homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome did single out Cordelia stating it's a privilege to be granted a visa to live and study in the United States of America when you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be revoked and you should not be in this country this protest unfolded against a much larger political landscape where the Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on immigrants with expired visas and beyond after agents discovered the suspect in the recent Boulder Colorado terror attack had overstayed a tourist visa the president vowed to double down on enforcement but supporters say Cardia is not a terrorist she's entitled to free speech and due process she is a completely different person than the person that was detained in Colorado and for the Trump administration or any law enforcement uh organization or agency to group folks together that way is is just an injustice that's what this administration has done with our humanity it has played with our humanity to say that we are no longer able to even travel did you guys hear about the travel ban yesterday protesters deplored the president's new travel ban which bar citizens from a dozen nations he claims lack proper security checks among the national security threats their analysis considered are the large-scale presence of terrorists failure to cooperate on visa security inability to verify travelers identities inadequate recordkeeping of criminal histories and persistently high rates of illegal visa overstays trump called his first travel ban successful and said this one scheduled to take effect Monday prompting frantic reactions this is a Muslim ban 2.0 it's happened before it's happening again the the terror the villainization of Muslim people the villainization of Muslims brown and black communities has been the way that the immigrant system works here and it's just expanding as for Kardia supporters and her attorney claim her visa status has been resolved for now they hope she'll be released from detention following today's court hearing in New York i'm Brenda Flanigan NJ Spotlight News