The leader of anti -Semitic protests at Colombia University detained by immigration authorities

Immigration officials arrested the head of the group that organized anti-Israel protests at Colombia University, sending it to a New Jersey detention center to wait for the deportation after the state department revoked its green book.

Graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, who was a main negotiator in the 2024 solidarity camp, who paralyzed school last spring, was most recently involved in the occupation of the Barnard College library, one of the Columbia license colleges.

He was arrested on Saturday, after the immigration and customs officers approached Mr. Khalil and his wife, who is pregnant with eight months, while returning home to their apartment owned by the university around 8:30 pm, Mr. Khalil, a Palestinian who is supposed to be assumed. Elizabeth contract detention facility in New Jersey.

“We have not been able to get more details about why he is detained,” Mr. Khalil, Amy Greer’s lawyer told Associated Press. “This is a clear climbing. The administration follows its threats. “

The arrest followed an statement by Secretary of State Rubio last week announcing that Hamas supporters and other designated terrorist groups threaten national security and will be treated as threats to national security.

“The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists. The rapists of the American law – including international students – are facing denial or revocation of visas and deportation, ”he wrote in a X post Thursday, winning plautored from the Republican Senator Cotton in Oklahoma and others.

The State Department has not yet responded to the Sun for confirmation or comment, however, a report of the pro-Palestinian Zeteo publication said that the State Department responded that “in general, the department has a wide authority to revoke the visas … according to the Law on immigration and nationality.”

Early this week President Trump announced that Columbia University will be naked by 400 million dollars in federal funds so as not to stop the intimidation campaigns against the Jewish students on campus. The movement followed an anterior Executive order In which he asked the federal agencies to revoke the visas of foreigners who “threaten our national security, I support the ugly ideology.” Then followed with a second warning.

“I will also quickly cancel the students’ visas from all Hamas supporters from the university campuses, who have been infested with radicalism,” he wrote in a second order.

On Sunday, Colombia said he received reports on immigration and customs execution officers around the campus. He said the law would follow, but no more.

“In accordance with our long-term practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, law enforcement must have a judicial mandate to enter non-public university areas, including university buildings. Colombia undertakes to respect all the legal obligations and to support the Student Body and the Community of our campus ”, the statement shows.

After the funding of Colombia was reduced, the interim president, Katrina Armstrong, said that the president has “legitimate concerns”.

“We owe each student here the best possible experience I can ever have, that there should never be a student who does not feel welcome, included or appreciated”, ” Said Mrs. Armstrong.