A former graduate student at Columbia University with a green card has been arrested and threatened with deportation, as his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, stood by his side. Mahmoud Khalil is the first student who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests to be arrested under the Trump Administration for his previous actions.
Within hours, he filed a petition claiming there was “no basis” for his arrest.
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