ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests..State Department pulled his green card
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RadaMillz
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The zionist don’t mind destroying this country as long as they get what they want. The thing is arresting students, banning tiktok and withholding hundreds of millions from universities is not going to work to ur favor, it’s just gonna wake up the mass.
Like he cares
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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.apnews.com
BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups
Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.www.dropsitenews.com
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.”
And now they are literally preventing lawyers from being able to effectively defend you
Amare's Right Hook
Southeast World Champion
If you get thrown in the cooler you have to deal with ICE
Im more mad at this fool cutting 400 million to Columbia University because of his fake love to israel
Absolut
Legal Bookie
Said in the other thread this guy has no due process. This is a civil matter it ain’t a criminal courts matter. He doesn’t have the rights he thought he had, and that “eradication of western civilization” talk isn’t what you should be doing if you are not a citizen
unfortunately when a white man, Trump, does things people turn into pussies, I'm saying that to say federal workers aren't going to do sh1t
if Obama tried 10% of the things Trump did he would've been shot
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