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DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment

Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 03:32 PM | 22 COMMENTS | permalink

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Judge temporarily blocks effort to deport Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protests

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-- Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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Khalil, who is Palestinian, served as a lead negotiator amid the campus's Gaza solidarity encampment last spring. He had appeared in several media interviews, in the past telling outlets he had a student visa. Advocates say he had gotten his green card since.

The escalation comes amid several reports of ICE presence on the school's campus this week. It also comes after a massive escalation by the Trump-Vance administration to crack down on speech. This week, Trump announced his intentions to jail, imprison, or deport students involved in protests. Then, reporting revealed that his State department was planning to use Artificial Intelligence to monitor online activity, and revoke visas for whomever they deem to be "pro-Hamas."

On Friday, the Trump administration cut $400 million in grants to Columbia, claiming it has failed to take steps to address antisemitism, despite it having one of the most militant responses to student protestors.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-09 03:24 PM

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-09 03:28 PM

"State department was planning to use Artificial Intelligence to monitor online activity, and revoke visas for whomever they deem to be "pro-Hamas."

Why stop there?
If this is such a threat, how about citizens who are pro-Hamas?
I've been told there are many pro-Hamas Democrats right here on the DR!

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-09 03:30 PM

"State department was planning to use Artificial Intelligence to monitor online activity"

Republicans are fully in favor of Big Brother now.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-09 03:32 PM

Updates:

Prem Thakker
@premthakker.bsky.social

UPDATE--Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife [who is a US citizen] tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

Prem Thakker @premthakker.bsky.social

UPDATE--Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now commented on the Trump admin's detaining & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia Gaza encampment student negotiator:
"We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported."

#5 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-09 08:05 PM

First the came for the Hamas supporters.

Polling suggested this was a popular move, and they set about deciding who they should come for next.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-09 08:14 PM

Nearly every day there's some new escalation in the America-driven efforts to stomp out speech that is critical of Israel. Americans need to understand that the situation has moved far beyond the point where Israel is a threat only to middle eastern lives: it's now threat to all, because American and other western governments who support it are stomping out basic freedoms with increasing aggression in order to silence all criticisms of not just Israel's ongoing abuses, but of its own.

#7 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-03-09 08:20 PM

Gotta love the Genociders. No Dissent allowed.

Israel has the "Right to Exist". Palestine is a Myth.

Palestine never Existed.

Ask Trump...he'll tell ya.

Bezalel and Bibi Approve this Message.

Now back to Work for your Betters...

"Do Me Daddy,Do me Hard,Do me Daddy".

Who's Yer Daddy?

#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-03-09 09:02 PM

Any Pro-Palestinian voter who didn't vote for Harris and/or who voted for Trump should have seen this coming.

#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-09 09:07 PM

Philip Bump @pbump.com

Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a "Hamas supporter"? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just "critical of Israel"?

#10 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-09 10:19 PM

3.5 million Arab-Americans make up 1.3% of the US population. Of that number, 34% are Lebanese-Americans, a country that Israel devastated in 2024. Only 6% of the entire 3.5m Arab-American population are Palestinian.

The US antiwar movement is as old as the American Revolution. Many were called "Loyalists" and would move to Canada after the colonial victory. I would wager there are more antiwar American citizens nationwide than total Arab-Americans.

If Democrats want to win the House and the Senate in 2026, perhaps they had better tap into the antiwar vote (something Hubert Humphrey did not do in 1968).

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-10 03:19 AM

Tell us all about McGovern, Wile E. Coyote.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-10 09:47 PM

MAGA version of "free speech" :

You can say "retarded" in public again, but you still can't protest against Israel.

#13 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-03-11 12:41 AM

@#11 ... The US antiwar movement is as old as the American Revolution. ...

Yup.

Back in the day, I was one of those who protested against the Vietnam War.

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-11 01:30 AM

Bernie Sanders, who receives ZERO dollars from AIPAC, was calling for stopping all military aid to Israel in early 2024 when Netanyahu's Nakba was killing wholesale the people of Gaza and then Lebanon. Did the White House listen? Now Joe Biden and Kamala Harris can write all their memoirs and make all the public speeches they want to. The damage is done, Trumpf and Bibi won, and the consequences of 2024 will plague us for quite a long time. Bibi and Bezalel, the nefarious Beavis and -------- of Israel, keep repeating the same sentences over and over and over again: "Subject Verb Hamas" or "Hamas Verb October 7."

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-11 02:42 AM

Republicans of late are fond of saying, Zelensky doesn't want the war to end because then he'll have to run for re-election. The same is true for Bibi, only in Bibi's case continuing the war is also forestalling an investigation into his dealings with/handling of Hamas before October 7th and on that fateful day.

To reiterate the obvious: You can be anti-Bibi without being anti-Semitic or anti-Israel. Likewise, you can be pro-Palestinian without being pro-Hamas.

#16 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-11 03:48 PM

MIGA

#17 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-03-11 03:59 PM

It doesn't sound like this kid is a terrorist...but he did serve as a negotiator for them. It'll all come out in the hearings.

#18 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-03-12 02:49 PM

Back in the day, I was one of those who protested against the Vietnam War.
#14 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

But today, when its not your citizens fighting, but your grand children's tax dollars, you promote it.

Typical Boomer attitude.

#19 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-12 03:16 PM

Gotta love the Genociders. No Dissent allowed.

Lumpers

#20 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-12 03:17 PM

It doesn't sound like this kid is a terrorist...but he did serve as a negotiator for them. It'll all come out in the hearings.
#18 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER A

Green card holders have been deported for less.

As a Green card holder, it is a privilege to be here, to contribute. To go to a protest and create mayhem about US foreign policy is absurd. Certainly speaking your mind is reasonable, but to actively participate in the destruction of property and peace is against the privilege.

#21 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-12 03:20 PM

IAMRUNT is a pathetic MAGAt who supports the orcs.

#22 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-12 03:20 PM

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