The Protestical Student Protestant detained by US immigration officials says lawyer

A student who played an important role during the propalist protests at Columbia University in New York last year has been detained by federal immigration officials, his lawyer says.

Mahmoud Halil, a Palestinian refugee raised in Syria, was a leading student negotiator for camp on the west side of Manhattan.

His lawyer Amy Greer told the BBC that Mr Khalil was at his university’s home when ICE and Customs Enforcement Agents (ICE) took him in custody on Saturday.

Colombia was the epicenter last year of propalist student protests across the country against the Gaza war and US support for Israel.

The BBC contacted the Ministry of Internal Security, the University of State and Colombia on Sunday for comment.

Later, Secretary of State Marco Rubio published news about X’s arrest of G -N Khalil, commenting: “We will cancel visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so that they can be deported.”

G -ja Greer said that ice agents told G -H Khalil that his student visa had been canceled, but she said her client was a legitimate permanent resident with a green card and married to an American citizen.

“Initially, we were informed this morning that he was transferred to an ice facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey,” said Gza Greer.

“However, when his wife, a US citizen who is eight months pregnant and threatened with arrest, as well as ice agents, last night, tried to visit him there today, she was told that she was not detained there.”

She said she was not aware of Mr. Khalil’s current location, although the search for online detainees on Ice’s website shows that an individual-born individual named Mahmoud Halil is held at the Elizabeth Treaty facility in New Jersey.

G -ja Greer said they had heard that Halil could be transferred as far as Louisiana without adding details.

The lawyer said that what happened to her client was “terrible and irrefutable – and calculated – wrong”.

During the protests last summer, Halil said he was negotiating with university administrators on behalf of student protesters.

They had put a huge camp on the university lawn tent in protest of the Gaza war.

Some students also conquered control of an academic building for several hours before police entered the campus to arrest them. Halil was not in this group.

Later, he told the BBC that he was temporarily suspended by the university where he was a graduate student at the School of International and Public Affairs.

Mr. Khalil’s detention follows the executive order of President Donald Trump in January, warning anyone who participates in Pro-Jihadist Protests and Hamas’s All Sympathizers in Colleges will be deported.

Some Jewish students in Colombia have said that the rhetoric of demonstrations sometimes passed the line into anti -Semitism. Other Jewish students on the campus joined the propalist protests.

In the topic of X, the Association of Jewish graduates of Colombia said it welcomed reports that suggest that G -H Khalil’s green map would be canceled, describing it as a “chaos Manager” in Colombia.

The Trump administration last week announced that it was canceling $ 400 million (310 million pounds) in Colombia’s federal subsidies, accusing it that it failed to fight anti -Semitism on the campus.

Colombia President Catherine Armstrong said in an email throughout Friday that “cancellation of these funds will immediately affect research and other critical functions of the university.”

The Israeli military began their campaign against Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, which left about 1,200 people killed and 251 took hostage.

More than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza were killed in Israel’s hostilities, according to Hamas’s health ministry.