President Donald Trump has said the arrest of a Columbia University graduate for taking part in pro-Palestinian protests was “the first of many to come”, stoking fears of a clampdown on free speech and campus-based activism across the country.
Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born US green card holder who was involved in protests last year on the university’s New York campus, was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement late on Saturday. He is being held at a processing centre in Louisiana, according to the agency’s database.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump said ICE “proudly apprehended and detained” Khalil, who he called “a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student”.
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