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Rishi Kumar, the Indian-origin CEO of AI startup EthosAI has come in support of deportation of the Columbia University's Indian student Ranjani Srinivasan. A fifth year PhD student, Ranjani fled to Canada recently after she got int of her imminent arrest as the tempers were running high following the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil whom the administration is preparing to deport. Srinivasan is said to have self-deported herself after she her student visa was revoked.