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"This is the first arrest of many to come," the president said of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder abducted by immigration agents and sent to Louisiana.
Mahmoud Khalil is a permanent resident of the United States. His arrest sets up a fight over free speech and immigrant rights.
The Columbia University graduate, who helped organize the school’s pro-Palestinian protests, was detained Saturday night and told that his student visa was being revoked, his attorney said.
A federal court petition demanding Mahmoud Khalil’s release provides details of the Columbia University activist’s arrest. Trump says more arrests are to come.
Trump called Mahmoud Khalil "a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student" and promised to "deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country."
Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.
Mahmoud Khalil is being detained as his lawyer fights for his release.
The Department of Homeland Security said it had arrested Khalil because he has 'led activities aligned to Hamas,' without elaborating. The New York Civil Liberties Union said Khalil's detention was unlawful, retaliatory and an attack on free speech rights
ICE officials took Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who played a significant role in Columbia University's protests against Israel, into custody over the weekend. Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened to revoke Khalil’s green card. More:
Mahmoud Khalil's detention appears to be one of the first efforts by Trump to fulfill his promise to seek the deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.
Immigration officials detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders of last year’s pro-Palestinian protests, over the weekend.
Mahmoud Khalil was picked up by immigration officers who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke his green card, his attorney says.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was "presented with intelligence" that determined Khalil -- a Syrian-born Palestinian who received his graduate degree from the elite school in December -- was a threat to national security, a White House source said.
Protesters reportedly plan to rally in New York City's Federal Plaza on Monday in support of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil.
The Columbia University protest ringleader busted by ICE agents and slated for deportation argued he should be released Monday, claiming the feds detained him illegally. Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil filed a petition in Manhattan federal court claiming there was "no basis" for his arrest and detention Saturday at his university-owned apartment on the Upper West Side. The...
The Columbia University grad taken into custody by federal immigration officials Saturday is a Palestinian former student and known campus agitator.