The U.S. State Department revoked the student visa of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University pro-Hamas activist and terrorist sympathizer, who claims to be a Palestinian refugee from Syria. He’s since been arrested and moved to a Louisiana ICE detention facility in preparation for deportation.
Khalil’s eventual deportation provides an exclamation point to the administration’s cancellation of $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University and is a bone of contention to Leftists.
Fourteen congressional Democrats signed a letter protesting Khalil’s detention, calling it an “attempt to criminalize political protest” and a “direct assault on freedom of speech.”
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