Of all the high-profile, pro-Palestine, non-US citizen arrests linked to campus protests made by the Trump administration's immigration authorities earlier this year, Leqaa Kordia is the only one still languishing in a detention centre in Alvaredo, Texas.

On Monday, the 32-year-old's lawyers filed an updated petition in her federal lawsuit seeking her immediate release from the Prairieland Detention Facility based on new evidence unearthed last month in a separate case.

The case in question is American Association of University Professors (AAUP) v. Rubio, which sought to challenge Secretary of State Marco Rubio's policy of what the plaintiffs describe as a "policy of ideological deportation".