Lee said in a post to X that Kim has been forced to sleep in a chair for more than a week with no access to daylight, and described the situation as "another brutal attack on immigrants & science." Kim is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University where he is studying vaccine development, according to the Post.

A Texas Lyme disease researcher faces deportation after being detained in San Francisco after returning from his brother's wedding in South Korea.

A Palestinian activist, who was denied entry to the U.S. at San Francisco International Airport last month, was shot and killed on Monday, allegedly by an Israeli settler, according to media reports and Bay Area politicians.

A Palestinian humanitarian activist who was previously denied entry into the United States after arriving at San Francisco International Airport last month was killed Monday in an attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank,