Lawyers for a New Jersey Palestinian woman arrested at a Columbia University anti-war protest last year asked a federal judge Thursday to release her from immigration detention in North Texas.

Attorneys for Leqaa Kordia argued her detainment is unconstitutional, violating her First and Fifth Amendment rights to speech and due process, respectively. Travis Fife, an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, one of the legal advocacy groups helping challenge Kordia's detention, said she's being detained for her pro-Palestinian views.

"Our client has been retaliated against for her protected speech," Fife argued in federal court Thursday.

"Each day Ms. Kordia is confined, she faces irreparable harm," he said.

Kordia was allowed to listen in to the hearing remotely, but her attorneys

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