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Immigrants who are cooperating with officials while they apply to stay in the U.S. are now fearful of detention during routine appointments with Immigration and Customs Enforcement When a couple from Colombia who was planning their wedding showed up for a check-in with U.S. immigration authorities, one was given his next appointment date. The other was detained and deported. Jhojan doesn’t know why Felipe was detained at the Feb. 5 appointment with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. But Jhojan was so worried after Felipe's deportation that he...

Dozens of protesters stormed Trump Tower in Midtown Thursday, demanding the release of Palestinian Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil. The protesters chanted “Free Mahmoud! Free them all!” by the golden escalators inside the lobby of Trump Tower, President Trump’s home base in Manhattan, on Fifth Ave. in Midtown. Cops had begun placing protesters under arrest by 12:30 pm. The group unfurled a banner reading “Jews say Free Mahmoud & Free Palestine” and “Fight Nazis Not Students.” Organizers said more than 300 people were taking part in the protest. Activists are demanding...

The Trump administration is employing a little-used immigration provision to try to deport a Palestinian activist with permanent residency status in the US.

Mahmoud Khalil, who until recently was a student at Columbia University, was arrested by immigration enforcement over the weekend after months of helping lead anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League campus. While US officials cited his alleged support for Hamas — a designated terrorist organization — as justification for his detention, the underlying charges against him hadn’t been clarified.

At least 250 people gathered Tuesday afternoon in Chicago’s Federal Plaza for an “emergency protest” against the arrest and possible deportation of an activist who helped lead Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian encampment in New York. Demonstrators rallied behind signs that read “Protecting students is freedom of speech” and called for Mahmoud Khalil’s release. One speaker drew a parallel between Khalil’s detention and the long-promised and much-publicized U.S.

Last week, President Donald Trump began keeping yet another of his promises—this time, to deport foreign nationals who support terrorism. On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department “revoked the first visa of an alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions,” a department official told Fox News. “This individual was a university student.

A Palestinian protest leader at Columbia University was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents Saturday night despite having a green card, his attorney said. President Donald Trump has promised to deport international students who participated in “pro-jihadist protests” on college campuses. Columbia was at the center of intense protests that broke out on campuses across the country last year over the Israel-Gaza war.

Mahmoud Khalil is married to a U.S. citizen, his attorney said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil -- a leader in Columbia University's encampment movement -- on Saturday night, claiming that his student visa had been revoked, according to attorney Amy Greer in a statement to ABC News. However, Khalil is in the United States on a green card and not on a student visa, Greer said Sunday. Despite informing agents about his legal status, ICE detained him, she said. At one point during a phone...

Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil (C) talks to the press during a press briefing organized by pro-Palestinian protesters in New York City on June 1, 2024. Photo: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images • Greer told the AP that an agent informed her in a phone call that they were executing an order from the State Department to revoke Khalil's student visa. Upon being informed he was a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were pulling his green card too. • Greer said in a statement to...

Plainclothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a recently graduated leader of the Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University on Saturday, according to his lawyer and student organizers, sparking fears of a long-feared federal crackdown on campus activists.