U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who graduated from Columbia University and led radical protests there, on Saturday, a sign of a Trump administration crackdown.
President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to deport foreign students who were fomenting anti-Israel and antisemitic protests on campus, which exploded under President Joe Biden in the wake of the October 7, 2023 terror attack by Hamas in Israel.
Barely ten days after taking office, Trump signed an executive order combating antisemitism on campus, in which he mentioned that foreign students involved in radical protests could be deported.
Last week, Trump reiterated that threat on his Truth Social platform, warning “agitators” they would be deported:
On Saturday night, President Trump apparently made good on
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