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Deportation Proceedings Against Mahmoud Khalil for Pro-Palestine Protest Activity
A Columbia graduate student with a green card was arrested by ICE for his role in Gaza solidarity protests and ordered deported on the novel grounds that his speech posed 'adverse foreign policy …
- Khalil was a lawful permanent resident (green card holder) arrested from his Columbia University campus apartment by ICE.
- When ICE learned he held a green card rather than a student visa, agents said that status would be revoked too.