The Palestinian student activist at New York's Columbia University detained as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on some anti-Israel protesters has been moved to a federal jail for migrants in Louisiana to await deportation proceedings,
Tulane University was among 60 colleges and universities to receive a letter from the Department of Education on Monday warning of consequences if Jewish students were not protected from antisemitism.
A US judge temporarily blocked the deportation of a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University who was arrested over the weekend after he led anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League campus.
Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested in his Manhattan apartment and sent to Louisiana. His detention sets up a fight over free speech.
President Trump says more arrests will follow, as protesters demonstrate against the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
Inspections have found repeated violations of federal standards at GEO Group’s Central Louisiana ICE Processing Facility.
If someone is in the country on a student visa, the State Department does have authority to revoke it if the person violates certain conditions. For example, said Florida immigration attorney John Gihon, it's quite common for the State Department to cancel visas of foreign students who get arrested for drunk driving.