Topline
The Homeland Security Department has detained a worker who helped Columbia University support Palestinian protests last year, his lawyer said on Sunday, the Trump administration, a few days after snatching funds from the university, said that he was arrested by the president of Donald Trump.
Mahmoud Khalil, a student negotiator at Palestinian pro -protest camp at Columbia University 8 speaking about the day about living [+]
Key facts
Mahmud Khalil, who helped lead Colombia’s protests, was arrested by immigration and customs enforcement agents on Saturday night through immigration and Customs Enforcement, his lawyer Amy Greer said. Associated Press.
Greer was told by ice agents that Khalil was detained by the State Department for canceling his student visa – which he does not have, because he is in the United States as a permanent resident – but when the lawyer said that the worker had also told his student’s card, instead of a student.
Greer told the AP, now Khalil has been kept in a detention center in the New Jersey city of Elizabeth, which says federal agents have refused to tell the worker’s pregnant wife whether Khalil has been accused of any crime.
Khalil was born in Syria, according to his detention records on the ICE website, and he served as a key negotiator between students and university officials about the collapse of the tent of protesters at Colombia’s campus last year.
He was arrested a few days after the Trump administration Announced It was receiving $ 400 million federal funding from Colombia on the university’s failure to deal with Palestinian pro -Palestinian protests, which critics decided for anti -mechanic. CaseWith the Department of Education, “continued despite the permanent harassment of Jewish students.”
Colombia Said On Sunday it was familiar with “Snowfall notifications around the campus” and school “followed[ing] The law, “noted its policy, is that” law enforcement agencies must have a judicial warrant for entering non -public university areas, including university buildings. “Although the school refused to tell the AP whether a warrant was given to Khalil’s arrest.
Important quote
Khalil’s arrest came after Trump Threatened Last week, “all federal funding will be stopped for any college, school or university that allows illegal protests.” The President wrote on Tuesday, “The angry people will be imprisoned/or permanently to the country from where they came from.” “US students will be permanently expelled or, in terms of crime, will be arrested. No mask!” (The White House has not provided this explanation about the formation of “illegal protest”, in view of the freedom of speech and the first amendment rights of the assembly.)
What has Columbia accuse Mahmoud Khalil?
Prior to his arrest, Khalil was allegedly one of several students that Colombia was interrogating Palestinian pro -Palestinian protests, his role in the AP. Reported Last week, Khalil told the AP that the school had made about 13 charges against him, which he claimed was primarily for “social media posts that I had nothing to do with.” Khalil said Colombia also threatened that he had stopped his duplication after refusing to sign a non -disclosure agreement before appealed to his lawyer’s decision, Khalil said. Columbia “Want just[s]
Khalil told the AP to show the Congress and the right -wing politicians to show that they are doing something for the students, “Khalil told the AP, describing the investigation” as an attempt to cool the Palestinian pro -speech. ”
What to see?
The unrest in Colombia is once again growing about how the school is responding to its Palestinian activists. P Reported At the end of February, the protesters forced Palestinian supporters to go to a building at Bernard College, demanding “general amnesty” for Palestinian protests-which was an All-Family Liberal Arts College inside Colombia and was allegedly attacked by a school employee. Students of Columbia, a student -led group in Palestine Said On the X, public safety officials “harassed and threw it on several students, knocked at least one to the ground.” Announcing the protests and other protests at the school in the weeks, the Student Group posted on February 26, “We will not stop until our demands are met.”
Key background
Colombia was the center of Palestinian supporters, which took place on the college campus last year, resulting in a wide range of promotion between the university leadership and workers. Students workers seized university buildings and set up a tent camp on the school campus, which resulted in the New York Police Department and Colombia taking action as a result of suspending students. Colombian President Manovic Shafak later resigned from his post in August – one of the several university leaders who left one of the outgoing people during the protest – in his time, saying that “there was a period of riots where our community was difficult.” The Republicans have strongly criticized the demonstrations as promoting enmity on the college campus, and a task force at Columbia University said in August. Report Jewish students at the school felt “expelled” on the school campus in the midst of the demonstration and felt that their concerns were being ignored by school officials. In addition to action by the Trump administration, the Republican -led House Education Committee sent Line In February, the Colombian president and trustees punished the school for allegedly “failing to remove the widespread hatred on campus” and demanding protest documents.
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