Lawmakers visit students Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk as they face deportation

Deporting dissent: The dangerous precedent set by the persecution of pro-Palestine activists

Rights are granted to those who align with power," Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell.

New Filings: Government Admits It Had No Warrant for Mahmoud Khalil When Agents Took Him

In filings in the case of Mahmoud Khalil submitted to immigration court yesterday and federal court today, the Trump administration admitted he was taken without any kind of warrant and made new, false claims that Mr. Khalil had refused to cooperate with ICE agents and told them he was going to leave the scene to justify the agents’ actions. The government’s new version of events is contradicted by previous descriptions and video taken by his wi…

USA: Stop revoking visas of foreign students - Amnesty International

On 8 March US immigration authorities unlawfully arrested and arbitrarily detained Mahmoud Khalil for his role in student protests at Columbia University. Authorities revoked his permanent residency status under a rarely used law and placed him into deportation proceedings. At least nine other students are known to have been similarly targeted for their protest or […]

Canary Mission, the pro-Israel group taking credit for student deportation, explained

Protesters rallied in support of Tufs University grad student Rümeysa Öztürk outside of federal court in Vermont on April 14, 2025. | Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty Images About nine years ago, a new organization called Canary Mission released a YouTube video describing their mission: maintaining a blacklist of anti-Israel college students. American campuses, the video warns, had become hotbeds of anti-Israel extremism: safe spaces for s…

Markey: ‘Rubio Is Acting Unconstitutionally and Illegally on Behalf of Donald Trump’

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is acting “unconstitutionally and illegally” on behalf of President Donald Trump. Discussing Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk, Markey said, “There have been no charges that have been lodged against her, no evidence produced except for an op ed that she wrote in the Tufts University newspaper as part of a debate going on at Tufts University. Beyond that…

If Permanent Resident Mahmoud Khalil can be Deported for Political Speech, the 1st Amendment is at Risk for All

By Erin Corcoran, University of Notre Dame The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 foreign university students since January 2025. Many of the individual cases that have made headlines center on foreign-born university students who participated in Palestinian rights protests. In early March, the federal government arrested, detained and began deportation proceedings against Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident bo…