The United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agents (ICE) have arrested a Palestinian graduate student in the New York University last year in protest of Palestinian supporters, a student labor union said on Sunday.
Student workers of the Colombia Union said in a statement that Mahmood Khalil, a student of international and public affairs of the university, was arrested at his university’s residence on Saturday.
Khalil’s wife is an American citizen and he has a permanent residency green card, the union said. He was arrested on Sunday. Khalil’s wife refused to comment through a co -workers of Khalil.
Khalil’s lawyer Amy Greener told the Associated Press News Agency that she spoke to one of the ICE agents by phone at the time of the arrest, saying that he was working on the order of the Foreign Department to withdraw the Khalil student visa. According to the lawyer, the lawyer said that the agent was in the country as a permanent resident with a Green card that he was canceling it too.
Greer said that the authorities refused to say that Khalil’s wife, who was an eight -month -old pregnant, was accused of committing a crime. Khalil has since been transferred to the Immigration arrest facility in Elizabeth of New Jersey.
“We could not find more information about why he was taken into custody.” “This is a clear growth. The administration is following his threats. “”
Last year, President Donald Trump arrested the promise to expel the international students against the Israeli war in the college premises. Their administration has claimed that participants have lost the right to stay in the country by supporting Hamas appointed by the United States as a ‘terrorist’ organization.
This movement has been described as an attack on the first repair independence.
Khalil, a Palestinian citizen, was one of the school administrators of the Palestinian supporters, some of which had given a tent camp on the Columbia Lawn last year and the police had taken control of the educational building in April to arrest them. Khalil was not in a capable group but the Colombia was intermediary between Provost and the protesters.
Students of protests were killed by companies in Colombia’s Israeli, by companies that end the battlefield and war companies, killing almost 000 Palestinians and made an enclevo pile after a nonstop bombing. The United States provided a large amount of ammunition for the war.
Colombia said last year, he would consider speeding up the demands of some students through his Investment Committee.
Rights groups have accused Israeli of genocidal in Gaza – 1.3 million people. 2 January, despite the ceasefire from January, Israel has withheld any help in Gaza from March 7 and protested by the Rights Group and Aid Agency.
October on October 223, the Hamas attack on Israel and then the Israeli military attack on Gaza protested for several months in the United States college premises.
At least 1,100 people were killed in the Hamas attack and about 240 people were abducted. Most hijackers have been released as part of the trice deals. The new round of war discussion will resume at Qatar’s capital Doo on Monday.
The government targeted
The Colombia spokesman said the school was lawless to share information about individual students.
The Homeland Security Department and the state department monitoring the country’s visa system do not respond to the news agency. The ICE agents did not immediately understand the reason for the arrest of Khalil. The ice comes under the Homeland Security Department of the United States.
In an interview to the Reuters News Agency, a few hours before the arrest of the Trump administration, Khalil said that the government was concerned that the government had targeted the media for talking to the media on Saturday.
The Trump administration said on Friday that he had canceled the government agreement and subsidy of about $ 400 million to Colombia University. The government has said that the harassment of “anti -semitic” in the Manhattan campus of Colombia and the students’ efforts are attempted by the students.
“What else can Colombia do now to calm the Congress or the government?” Khalil said before his arrest, Colombia had twice called the police to arrest the protesters and discipline many Palestine students and staff.
“They basically calmed Palestine on campus, and this was not enough. Obviously, Trump is using his comprehensive agenda as a goat for the fighting and attacking the high education and the IY League Education System. “”
Responding to the grant deduction announced on Friday, Colombia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, said the school was committed to fighting against semetism and is working to “eliminate their legal concerns with the federal government”.
Students of protests have rejected allegations against semeism.
‘This is just a start’
The Palestinian American senior Maryam Alwan in Colombia has protested in favor of Khalil, saying the Trump administration is inhumane for the Palestine people.
She said, “I am scared for my beloved friend Mahmud, a legislative resident and I am afraid that this is just a start,” she said.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio said last week that international students, who supported the Hamas, who were appointed by the US “terrorist” organization, faced visas cancellation and deportation.
On Thursday, Colombia issued a revised protocol for how to handle ICE agents in an attempt to enter private school property.
The school said that without the court arrest warrant, ICE agents could be allowed to enter private property in “extreme conditions”, which he did not specify.
“The Colombia Trump is surrendering to attacks on universities across the country by allowing ice on campus and sacrificing international students to finance it,” Colombia’s student workers said in his statement.
Khalil lives in the university apartment building near the main gate campus of Colombia.