ICE arrest anti-Israel activist who led disturbances on the Columbia campus

An anti-Israel activist, Who students affirm that it was a leader of protests and camps on the Campus of the University of Columbia in New York City for months, has been arrested by immigration and customs agents (ICE) of the United States, according to Fox News sources.

On Saturday, Mahmoud Khalil was arrested in Your university apartment in the Upper West Side of the city.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, reacted to the arrest and issued a serious warning to anyone who supports the Hamas terrorist group.

“We will revoke the visas and/or green cards of Hamas followers in the United States so that they can be deported,” Rubio wrote in an X post.

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ICE agents told Khalil that they were acting in an order from the State Department to revoke their green card and student visa, according to Khalil’s lawyer, Amy E. Greer of Dratel & Lewis. She issued a statement claiming that Ice agents unfairly arrested Khalil.

“Last night, ICE agents unfairly arrested Mahmoud Khalil, claiming that his student visa was revoked, despite the fact that Mahmoud is a legal permanent resident (green card) and not in the United States with a student visa,” Greer said. “Faced with that fact, the ice agents stopped him anyway.”

Greer said the firm presented a request for habeas corpus during the night in “Mahmoud’s name challenging the validity of its arrest and detention.”

“Currently, we do not know Mahmoud’s precise whereabouts. Initially, this morning they informed us that he had been transferred to an ice installation in Elizabeth, New Jersey,” Greer added.

“However, when his wife, an American citizen who is eight months pregnant and that ICE agents also threatened the arrest last night, tried to visit him today, they told him that he is not detained there.”

Greer added that the firm has received reports that Khalil can be transferred as far as Louisiana.

“We will strongly invent Mahmoud’s rights in court, and we will continue our efforts to correct this terrible and inexcusable, and calculated, poorly committed against him,” Greer said.

“The arrest and detention of ICE of Mahmoud follow the open repression of the US government. Mahmoud and the fall in government and have offered legal behavior in legal behavior. – Amy E. Greer, lawyer from Dratel & Lewis

Fox News communicated with Columbia Media Affairs, who would not confirm the state of Khalil at the University. Associated Press reported that Khalil graduated from Columbia in December.

“There have been ice reports on the streets around the campus. Columbia has continued and will continue to follow the law,” the university published in a statement on the school website.

“We want to communicate again to our community of the campus that we have a current protocol, which includes telephone numbers to call in case it approaches it on or outside the campus. According to this protocol, and consisting of our long -standing practices and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, the police must have a court order to enter the areas of the non -public university, including the constructions of the residential university,” said the statement.

“Columbia undertakes to comply with all legal obligations and support our student body and the community of the campus. We are also committed to the legal rights of our students and urge all community members to be respectful of those rights.”

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A Muslim civil rights organization also put himself in defense of Khalil and said that “it is a legal permanent resident” and promised that the “fight just begins.”

“The graduate of the University of Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, is a permanent legal resident of our nation who has not been accused or convicted of a single crime,” said Cair National in a position in X.

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“The decision without law of the National Security Department to arrest it only due to its peaceful activism against genocide represents a flagrant attack on the guarantee of the freedom of expression of the first amendment, the immigration laws and humanity of the Palestinians. We and other civil rights groups are in communication with the legal advisor of Mahmoud. This fight is beginning.”

The accusation against Khalil arose from his alleged participation in the disintempted group of apartheid of Columbia University, claiming that there were helped organize an “unauthorized marching event” That glorified the attack of October 7, 2023 from Hamas to Israel and played a “substantial role” in the circulation of publications on social networks that criticize Zionism, the AP reported.

“I have about 13 accusations against me, most of them are publications on social networks with which it had nothing to do,” Khalil told the AP last week.

“They just want to show the politicians of Congress and right that they are doing something, regardless of the bets for students,” he added. “It is mainly an office to relax pro-palenin speech.”

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Khalil’s arrest occurs only a few days later President Donald Trump He threatened to deport foreign students who were involved in what he calls “illegal protests” on campus.

On Friday, the Administration announced that it would terminate $ 400 million in subsidies and federal contracts to Columbia because the Ivy League school was not protecting Jewish students on campus.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price is a writer of Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers issues that include missing persons, homicides, national cases of crimes, illegal immigration and more. The advice and ideas of history can be sent to stepny.price@fox.com