Well, it finally happened.
After leading violent and threatening protests at Columbia University, on Saturday, President Trump’s ICE agents arrested activist Mahmoud Khalil, who has led anti-Israel protests at Columbia and Barnard College.
The New York Post reports that Khalil is set to be deported after being detained and taken into custody by ICE.
The State Department has also reportedly issued an edict revoking his student visa and his green card.
Update out of Columbia – pro Palestinian riot leader Mahmoud Khalil was arrested & detained yesterday by DHS (Department of Homeland Security).
The U.S. Dept of State has now revoked Mahmoud Khalil’s immigration status due to his participation in mob riots at Columbia.
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— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) March 9, 2025
A Palestinian activist who led the disruptive anti-Israel protests at both Columbia University and Barnard College has been arrested by ICE agents at his campus apartment, according to his lawyer.
Mahmoud Khalil, a former graduate student who got his undergraduate degree in Beirut and completed his studies at Ivy League Columbia in December, also reportedly faces having his visa revoked and his green card canceled following President Trump’s crackdown on unrest at colleges.
He was inside his university-owned apartment a few blocks from campus Saturday night when ICE agents entered the residence and took him into custody, attorney Amy Greer told AP.
The arrest is yet another example of ‘promises made, promises kept’ from President Trump and his pledge to arrest and deport foreign troublemakers who are making college campuses unsafe for Jewish students.
According to The Post, Khalil completed his undergraduate degree in Beirut, Lebanon and worked for UNRWA through 2023, a UN agency infiltrated by Hamas.
UNRWA, which received $1 billion from Joe Biden when he was President, is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Reports indicate that at least 12 UNRWA staffers took part in the mass slaughter of innocent Jews during the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.
Khalil had threatened Columbia in the past, saying “As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli apartheid, the students will continue to resist,”
Then he had more ominous words “Not only protests and encampments, the limit is the sky.”
President Trump has made clear that students will not be threatened and intimidated, and those who do so and are not citizens will be deported.
On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) also announced the immediate rescinding of $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University citing “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students” by the university.
