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