ICE agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil -- a leader in Columbia University's encampment movement -- on Saturday night, said attorney Amy Greer.

Summary

ICE agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s encampment movement, claiming his student visa was revoked.

However, his attorney Amy Greer states he has a green card, not a student visa.

Despite filing a habeas corpus petition, Greer can’t locate where Khalil is being held, noting his eight-months-pregnant wife couldn’t find him at a New Jersey facility.

The arrest follows Trump’s March 4 social media threat to defund universities allowing “illegal protests” and deport “agitators.”

  • Soup@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago
    1. Article is fairly old, though it is stated that Mahmoud is a leader of a sorts in the Columbia campus movement so we can guess he didn’t show up yesterday.
    2. These protests started peacefully ages ago and the current administration is outright banning them. What are they gunna do, just sit down and take it?
    3. Palestine is being aggressively ethnically cleansed right now and the US government is enabling it with a smile on its face. Context is important because fighting back against people who consider you vermin is not a fucking hate crime. Zionists can fuck right off.