For months now, President Trump has been threatening to deport foreign students who took part in last year’s campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Behind the scenes, his administration got to work. Investigators from a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically focuses on human traffickers and drug smugglers scoured the internet for social…
Protesters march on campus against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo) The Trump administration has taken a significant step by pulling $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University over its handling of alleged antisemitic harassment. At the same time, the Department of…
A U.S. judge on Wednesday will hold a hearing over a Columbia University student’s challenge to his arrest by immigration authorities, a case that has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s pledge to deport pro-Palestine college activists. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman is due to hear from lawyers for student activist Mahmoud Khalil, 29,…
US President Donald Trump on Monday warned that the recent arrest and possible deportation of pro-Palestinian student-activist, Mahmoud Khalil, is the “first of many to come” as his administration cracks down on student demonstrations against Israel and the ongoing Gaza war. In a long post on Truth Social, the 78-year-old President claimed that several of…
The Trump administration warned 60 universities on Monday that they could face penalties from pending investigations into antisemitism on college campuses, a threat sharpened in recent days by its cancellation of funding to Columbia University and the arrest of a protest leader there. The list of five dozen schools included colleges from both Republican- and…
The Trump administration invoked an obscure legal statute over the weekend in an attempt to deport a recent Columbia University graduate and lawful permanent resident of the United States who helped lead campus protests against Israel last year, people with knowledge of the action said on Monday. Mahmoud Khalil, 30, who graduated in December from…
Harvard University, one of the nation’s wealthiest schools, on Monday joined the list of universities across the country imposing hiring freezes, citing the uncertainty created by President Trump’s threats to slash funding for higher education. The move was announced in an email to the school community by Dr. Alan M. Garber, Harvard’s president. The announcement…
The activist Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian student movement at Columbia University, has been transferred to Louisiana after federal immigration officials arrested him over the weekend, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website. Mr. Khalil is being held at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, La. His lawyer,…
Bret Stephens: Hola, Gail. ¿Qué opinas sobre la insistencia de Donald Trump en que el inglés sea nuestro idioma oficial? Gail Collins: Hey, Bret, great to be back conversing. And in Spanish no less, a language I once attempted — and failed — to learn. It was my second effort at becoming bilingual. In college,…
Agents from US President Donald Trump’s administration arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University, four fellow students said on Sunday. The student, Mahmoud Khalil at the university’s School of International and Public Affairs, was arrested by US Department of Homeland Security agents…