Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest was in support of President Donald Trump’s decree that prohibits anti -Semitism
United States Immigration Agents arrested on Sunday (9.mar.2025) a Palestinian postgraduate student at New York for helping to lead pro-Palestinian activism in the campus.
The security department said in In the X (Ex-Twitter) that the arrest of the student identified as Mahmoud Khalil was given em “Support to President Donald Trump’s decrees prohibiting anti -Semitism”.
According to the department, Khalil “Leaded activities aligned with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization”.
Khalil, active in pro-Palestinian protests at the university, is married to an 8-month-old pregnant American citizen and has a green card – Permanent Residence Perms.
Civil rights groups criticized their arrest, considering it an attack on freedom of expression. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, on social networks that can revoke visas and green cards of “Hamas supporters in the US ”.
Columbia University expressed a commitment to its students’ legal rights, but has not provided details about Khalil’s case.
totaling about US $ 400 million (about R $ 2.3 billion). The Trump government claims to worry about campus anti -Semitism and the “Persistent harassment to Jewish students”.
