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New York: A judge ordered US authorities Tuesday to cease efforts to detain and deport a New York college student, as President Donald Trump presses his campaign against pupils linked to pro-Palestinian protests. Trump has targeted New York’s Columbia University, where the student is enrolled, as…
Washington: The US government has alleged that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application, saying that should be grounds for deportation. The UN agency known as UNRWA provides food and…
Washington: Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University Palestinian graduate student who the Trump administration is seeking to deport for his role in pro-Palestinian protests, called himself a political prisoner on Tuesday, in his first direct comments since his detention. The detention of Khalil, a US permanent resident,…
The United States witnessed a disturbing surge in discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Arabs in 2024, with a record-breaking 8,658 complaints filed, marking a 7.4% increase from the previous year. This alarming trend is attributed to the escalating Islamophobia fuelled by Israel’s war in Gaza…
New York: A leader of Columbia University protests against Israel’s war in Gaza was arrested by immigration officers, a campus union said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators. Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent faces in the campus’s…
Federal immigration authorities on Saturday arrested a former Columbia University student, who was at the forefront of the pro-Palestinian protests on campus last year, citing a State Department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney. Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian refugee raised in Syria,…