ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests..State Department pulled his green card

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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says

A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

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Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.

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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says​

Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)
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NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s student encampment movement was arrested Saturday night by federal immigration authorities who claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney.

Mahmoud Khalil was at his university-owned apartment blocks from Columbia’s Manhattan campus when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered the building and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told The Associated Press.

One of the agents told Greer by phone that they were executing a State Department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated in December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.

The arrest comes as President Donald Trump vows to deport foreign students and imprison “agitators” involved in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. The administration has placed particular scrutiny on Columbia, announcing Friday that it would be cutting $400 million in grants and contracts because of what the government describes as the Ivy League school’s failure to squelch antisemitism on campus.

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The authorities declined to tell Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, why he was being detained, Greer said. Khalil has since been transferred to an immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

“We have not been able to get any more details about why he is being detained,” Greer told The AP. “This is a clear escalation. The administration is following through on its threats.”

A spokesperson for Columbia said law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property. The spokesperson declined to say if the school had received a warrant for Khalil’s arrest.

Messages seeking comment were left with the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.

Khalil had become one of the most visible faces of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia. As Columbia students erected tents on campus last spring, Khalil was picked to serve as a negotiator on behalf of students and met frequently with university administrators.

When classes resumed in September, he told The Associated Press that the protests would continue: “As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli apartheid, the students will continue to resist.”

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Dammit man

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

What a dumb article

"One of the agents told Greer by phone that they were executing a State Department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated in December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer."

Why would a permanent resident need a student visa?
Who is running the State Department?

 

[Buddy]

Where's the part of about trannies?
Are you saying THAT dude is the tranny?

 

[Voice of Reason]

A bad look for Trump.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

What a dumb article

"One of the agents told Greer by phone that they were executing a State Department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated in December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer."

Why would a permanent resident need a student visa?
Who is running the State Department?

this shyt sounds like a complete mess and ICE is out here violating people’s rights.

None of this makes any sense.

 

[FaTaL]

They recently passed a law allowing this

 

[the bossman]

The authorities declined to tell Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, why he was being detained

Wow

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

WTF

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Let's see what happens when they start expelling and arresting American students who protested

 

[Seoul Gleou]

But it's the zionists the are unsafe.

So far the victims of violence have been Palestinians or people thought to be Palestinians

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Let's see what happens when they start expelling and arresting American students who protested

People think that do not hire list isn’t real, but it is. Protesters better live in blue states because we are seeing the total erasure of rights.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

People think that do not hire list isn’t real, but it is. Protesters better live in blue states because we are seeing the total erasure of rights.

I wonder if they're going to use the same Executive order when the Federal workers start marching and kicking up dust

 

[At30wecashout]

Man, shyts getting grim. And you know as they purge more folks from the administrative state, then the REAL fukkery begins.

We had concepts of a democracy but all we are getting is tangiboots on the throat. Some people too busy seeing if they Timbs or Lugz to recognize how bad this is.