Immigration officials have arrested the head of the group that organized anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, sending him to a detention center in New Jersey to await deportation after the State Department revoked his green card.
Graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, who was a lead negotiator in the 2024 Gaza Solidarity encampment that paralyzed the school last spring, had most recently been involved with the occupation of the library at Barnard College, one of Columbia’s undergraduate colleges.
