A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead the Columbia University Student Campament Movement was arrested by federal immigration officials on Saturday, claiming that he was working on the order of the State Department to ban his green card.
Amy Greer told the Associate Press, Mahmud Khalil was in an apartment -owned apartment when he was in New York’s main campus in New York when several agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) entered the building and took it into the building.
An agent told Greer by phone that he was performing the State Department’s order so that Khalil’s students could revoke the visa. According to the lawyer, according to the lawyer, the lawyer was informed by the lawyer that Khalil, who graduated last December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said he too was canceling it.
The arrest came when Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign students and imprison “angry people” involved in protests against the Israeli war in Gaza.
The administration has conducted a special scrutiny on Columbia, announcing Friday that it will cut the M 400 million in grants and contracts due to the failure of the Elite School to eliminate the Elite School’s hatred on the campus.
Authorities refused to tell Khalil’s wife, who is being detained for eight months, Greer said. Subsequently, Khalil has been shifted to Elizabeth of New Jersey to the immigration detention facility.
“We have not been able to find any more details about why he is being detained,” Greer told the AP. “This is a clear addition. The administration is pursuing its dangers.
A spokesman for Colombia said law enforcement agents must prepare a warrant before entering the university property. The spokesman declined to say whether the school had received a warrant for Khalil’s arrest.
Commenting messages with the State Department, Homeland Security (DHS) and the ICE were released.
Khalil became one of the most shown faces of the Palestinian movement in Colombia. When students set up tents on campus last spring, Khalil was selected by students to serve as a negotiator and met the university organizers frequently.
When classes resumed in September, he told the Associate Press that the protests will continue: “As long as investment in Colombia and the Israeli will continue to take advantage of color, the students will continue to resist.”
The immigration court can dismiss the green card, but it is not power in government departments.
It was last week Reported by Axios Secretary for Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio plans to revoke a visa for foreign nationals who are considered to support Hamas or other terrorist groups using artificial intelligence (AI) to select people.
According to joint records with the AP, Khalil was investigated in search of students who criticized Israel through a newly created university disciplinary committee-officer for the Equity.
In recent weeks, the committee has sent notices to dozens of students for activities from sharing social media posts in support of the Palestinian people to “unauthorized” protests.
Khalil said last week, “There are about 13 charges against me, most of them are social media posts that I had nothing to do with.”
After refusing to sign the non -dialogue agreement, Khalil said the university had threatened to prevent it from being graduated. Khalil said, but when he appealed the decision by a lawyer, he finally withdrew.
“They just want to show the Congress and the right politicians that they are doing something, regardless of the stake for the students, Khalil said. “This is primarily an office in which Palestinian supporters have to cool down.”
Colombian students launched a tent tent protest at their Manhattan campus last spring, with the idea that the idea was on dozens of US campuses. In Colombia and many other colleges, their educational administration was called to the relevant local police department and hundreds of students were arrested.
“Targeting the student worker is a competition for the rights of Mahmud Khalil and his family. This unconstitutional act clearly sends a remarkable message that freedom of expression is no longer safe in the United States. In addition, all the people living in the United States and the United States have to face the right thing to do. What can happen, which shows that the Trump administration is willing to ignore the law to overcome fear and to advance its racist agenda.
“The DHS should immediately release Khalil,” he said.
