On Saturday, ICE arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student who just graduated with a Master’s Degree in December. Khalil had been a lead negotiator for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the pro-Hamas group which took over a campus building last spring and which has been involved in other acts of vandalism and campus disruptions already this year.
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until this past December, was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told The Associated Press.
Greer said she spoke by phone with one of the ICE agents during the arrest, who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil was in the United States as a…
