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Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests, appeared before a judge in New Jersey to debate where Khalil’s fight to be released from federal custody should play out.
People with ties to American universities, most of whom have shown support for pro-Palestinian causes, have been detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
A federal judge has ruled that a Columbia University student who faces potential deportation for participating in a pro-Palestinian protest cannot be detained by immigration officials for now.
Some U.S. embassies in European nations are taking to social media with pointed warnings to would-be visitors: Watch your step.
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon says Columbia University is “on the right track” to recover federal funding frozen by the Trump administration.
A federal judge has ordered Columbia University and Barnard College to refrain from complying with a Republican-led House committee’s demand for student disciplinary records, at least until he holds a hearing next week on a request by Mahmoud Khalil and other students for a temporary restraining order.
A federal judge says a Columbia University student activist's legal challenge of his detention by the U.S. government will be heard in New Jersey rather than New York or Louisiana.
A Columbia University student arrested and threatened with deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel gave his first public statement, saying that his detention is indicative of “anti-Palestinian racism” demonstrated by both the Trump and Biden administrations.
The Justice Department has announced the creation of a task force to investigate Hamas for its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group.
Homeland Security officials say a doctor from Lebanon who was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa “openly admitted” to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral.
A newly released video shows the moment federal immigration agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist whose detention has sparked waves of protest across the country.
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other policies.
A top U.S. Justice Department official says the department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed “illegal aliens” on its campus.
Police have arrested dozens of demonstrators from a Jewish group who filled the lobby of Trump Tower to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University.
Again and again, the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown.
President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term.
A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana.
When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil became a familiar, outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. colleges.
The White House complained that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the government’s effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
A U.S. green card holder faces deportation after helping lead student protests at Columbia University in New York last spring over the war in Gaza.
The arrest of a Palestinian activist who helped organize campus protests of the war in Gaza has sparked questions about whether foreign students and green card holders are protected against being deported from the U.S. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested Saturday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
President Donald Trump is warning that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administration cracks down on protests against the war in Gaza.
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
Columbia University resumed classes with students sunbathing and eating ice cream on the lawn that was home to a pro-Palestinian encampment last spring.
