Lawyers for an activist who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University are expected to face off Wednesday in court with federal officials who want him deported. A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted Mahmoud Khalil's removal,

Palestine activists of engaging in “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” A judge has temporarily blocked Khalil’s deportation.

A federal judge has halted the deportation of a Columbia University graduate student who was detained by immigration authorities for his participation in campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York issued the order Monday as the government sought to deport Mahmoud Khalil after arresting him outside his apartment over the weekend.

Khalil’s arrest casts Columbia University into the spotlight almost a year after protesters set up an encampment on the Ivy League school’s lawn to protest the war, sparking a nationwide movement on campuses across the country. It also signals the Trump administration’s escalating approach to pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses.

The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on New York's Columbia University as it seeks to identify participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrations last year for possible deportation after immigration authorities detained a prominent Palestinian activist.

The White House complained that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the government’s effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrati

Columbia University is fighting two wars at once. One rages publicly against President Trump, whose administration in recent days ordered the arrest of a student protester and canceled federal funds to the Ivy League school over allegations of antisemitism.

The federal government has terminated $400 million in funds to the Ivy League university although investigations into alleged antisemitic harassment are continuing. The Trump administration’s sudden and fairly unprecedented termination of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to Columbia University raises worries among the nation’s K-12 schools that something similar could happen to their funding,

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