President Donald Trump On Monday, he took the truth of Social on Monday to deal with the icy understanding of Mahmoud Khalil, whom he called “radical foreign Pro-Hamas students at the Columbia University Campus.”
“This is the first arrest of many to come. We know that there are more students in Columbia and other universities in the whole country who have dealt with pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activities, and Trump’s administration will not tolerate it,” Trump said in the post. “Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, catch and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country – that they never come back again.”
The president continued that many were protesting for the arrest Khalil at universities are not students, but “paid agitators”.
On Monday afternoon, a few protesters gathered in front of the entrance to Columbia University New York City, singing “Free Mahmoud Khalil” and “Police officers and ice outside the campus.” They had an inscription that carried the resolution of social media for Revcs, a self -written group of “revolutionary communists”.
Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is located at the Columbia University Campus in New York on a pro-Palestinian protest camp on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)
“If you support terrorism, including the slaughter of innocent men, women and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here,” Trump’s post continued. “We expect to adhere to every American college and university.”
Students claim that Khalil has been a protest leader and camp on the Columbia University Campus for months. He took it in custody His apartment owned by the University on Manhattan’s upper west side on Saturday.
Protesters at the entrance to the University of Columbia in New York on March 10, 2025. (Fox News)
Ice agents told Khalil to act on the order of a state department to recall his green map and a student visa, according to Khalil’s lawyer, Amy E. Greer. Posted a statement that states Leda agents misjudged Khalil.
“Last night, Ice agents were wrongly arrested by Mahmoud Khalil, claiming that his student visa was taken away -although Mahmoud is a legal permanent resident (green card), not in the US on a student visa,” Greer said. “Faced with this fact, Ice agents have attracted him anyway.”
Anti-Israeli agitators organized campsites at the Columbia University Campus. (Getty Images)
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The Muslim Organization for Civic Rights Cair also came to Khalil’s defense and claimed in the post on the X that “the lawful permanent resident” and vowed that “the struggle was just beginning.”
Khalil is now being held in the detention of Jen/Lasalle in Louisiani, Ice confirmed to Fox News. The facility serves as the central ice processing center in Louisiana and has more than 1,000.
Fox News’ Brendan McDonald, Stepheny Price and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.
