Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests

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Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests​


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)

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)


By JAKE OFFENHARTZ

Updated 11:37 PM EDT, March 9, 2025


NEW YORK (AP) — Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian activist Saturday who played a prominent role in Columbia University’s protests against Israel, a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s pledge to detain and deport student activists.

Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until this past December, was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told The Associated Press.

Greer said she spoke by phone with one of the ICE agents during the arrest, who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that instead, according to the lawyer.
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Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests

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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America has become so much worse than we were during the Vietnam protests, people who with 20/20 hindsight were almost completely right.
 
Earl said:

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The only thing HAMAS did that was illegal was the taking of hostages, otherwise they were freedom fighters.

AND more than half the Jews killed Oct 7/8 were killed by the IDF.
 
I am MAGA but Trump like so many others is completely wrong about the Zionist Bastards....our support of them is more proof that American power must go away....for the good of the world.

America became Evil.
 
Khalil’s arrest is the first publicly known deportation effort under Trump’s promised crackdown on students who joined protests against the war in Gaza that swept college campuses last spring. The administration has claimed participants forfeited their rights to remain in the country by supporting Hamas.

Support of a terrorist group like Hamas is illegal.
 
-Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.

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Khalil’s arrest is the first publicly known deportation effort under Trump’s promised crackdown on students who joined protests against the war in Gaza that swept college campuses last spring. The administration has claimed participants forfeited their rights to remain in the country by supporting Hamas.

Support of a terrorist group like Hamas is illegal.
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There is no evidence he supports Hamas.

Are you against the First Amendment?
 
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Khalil’s arrest is the first publicly known deportation effort under Trump’s promised crackdown on students who joined protests against the war in Gaza that swept college campuses last spring. The administration has claimed participants forfeited their rights to remain in the country by supporting Hamas.

Support of a terrorist group like Hamas is illegal.
 
Earl said:
-Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.

18 USC 2339B: Providing material support or resources to ...​

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Grok says this.

"The DHS’s broad claim of "activities aligned to Hamas" contrasts with the lack of criminal charges or concrete proof released as of March 10, 2025, leaving room for skepticism about the accusation’s basis."
 
“On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student," McLaughlin said. "Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization."
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ICE arrests Columbia graduate student and activist, lawyer says

Mahmoud Khalil's attorney says he was detained by immigration officers who claimed his student visa was revoked, despite him not being on one. His whereabouts remain unknown.
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“On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student," McLaughlin said. "Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization."
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So she says. No evidence.
 
“On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student," McLaughlin said. "Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization."

These far left loons who support Hamas are human garbage.
 
"But the detention of a legal permanent resident who has not been charged with a crime marked an extraordinary move with an uncertain legal foundation, according to immigration experts.

“This has the appearance of a retaliatory action against someone who expressed an opinion the Trump administration didn’t like,” said Camille Mackler, founder of Immigrant ARC, a coalition of legal service providers in New York."

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ICE Arrests Columbia Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil

Khalil's arrest is the first known deportation effort under Trump’s promised crackdown on students who protested the war in Gaza.
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“On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student," McLaughlin said. "Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization."

These far left loons who support Hamas are human garbage.
 
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