so the detention of mahmoud khalil, his attorney says you cannot do this. he's a green card holder, but there are provisions under which somebody was a permanent resident in this country can lose that permanent residency and be deported. >> yeah, the president has very, very strong powers in this area and in fact during trump one, this went all the way to scotus, relative to the so-called muslim travel ban. was not a love travel ban, but nonetheless they took that all the way to the top and won. roberts rode the opinion. there is precedent for this. irrespective of the visa issue which can be revoked, green card status can be revoked for quote, unquote, security reasons. that is at the discretion of the president. so he's got an uphill battle here but the larger issue really is the fault of the school. the school has empowered these people. they have lost their first principle, which is to prepare students for a life in our society. they've decided to allow this. they did not prosecute last year when it got even worse, and you see the results. >> john: inte

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release mahmoud khalil now! chanting free palestine and freelton khalil after i.c.e. agents arrested the former columbia grad student, saying he was leading activities that align with hamas. khalil's lawyer says the feds told her they were revoking his green card and student visa picky came from syria just two years ago, and is married to a u.s. citizen who says she's pregnant, asking that he be released immediately. kahleah led dozens of protests at the ivy league school, calling on columbia to divest from israel or said it wasn't going to stop. just last week in video we saw, he was at this protest at barnard college. it is the same protest where these pamphlets were handed out, claiming to be from hamas media office. very disturbing as they call the october seventh attack by hamas a moral victory. trump posting this arrest is the first of many to come. khalil has backing from congress. watch this. >> if you believe in constitutional rights, if you understand they are targeting this person and everyone knows he

[chanting hands off mahmoud khalil] >> lawrence: and president trump warns more arrests are coming.ctor chris swecker joins us now. so, chris, i have been looking at some of the laws on the books. i think it goes back to someone having links to terrorism. so what is the administration claiming when it comes to this individual? >> well, one thing is for certain, lawrence. these cases -- and when i say "these cases" the activities on these campuses that are federally subsidized if you will, have been grossly under investigated over the last four years. >> lawrence: that's right. >> it's bad enough that people travel interstate to come to a campus and block access to jewish students. they kidnap or confine people inside the buildings. damage the buildings, block public access, block roads. but, if they travel interstate to do that and if they are financed by a foreign terrorist organization, which i think is what you are referring to. >> lawrence: that's right. >> under a federal statute. they can get 20 years in prison. the only thing i'm saying here is these cases need to be fully in

democrats are calling the detention mahmoud khalil a green card holder authoritarianism.lexis mcadams is live in new york with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. >> bret, good evening. we watched protesters columbia university and spilled out all across the streets of new york city. they say they will not stop until ice releases mahmoud khalil arrested over the weekend by federal agents. this comes as at least a dozen protesters were handcuffed and taken into police cud today here in the big apple after they got into a fight with police. watch this. [shouting] >> khalil's arrest is not about free speech. the administration says the 30-year-old originally from syria is being investigated as a national security threat. so ice agents arrested him near campus saying he was leading activities thath hamas. khalil's lawyers said the feds told her they were revoking his green card and student visa. the state department telling fox part of their immigration laws allow the secretary of state to remove a non-citizen if their presence has serious adverse foreign policy consequ

a group of stanford students held a walkout today for mahmoud khalil. he is a student at columbia university and a pro-palestinian activist. khalil is accused of activities in support of hamas, a designated terrorist organization. students also gathered at uc berkeley's sproul plaza as part of a national day of action to free mahmoud khalil. he is a palestinian and a permanent u.s. resident. ice agents took him into custody saturday at his apartment, and the government is trying to deport him. >> south bay leaders say they're making a new push to address what they're calling landlording. they say people are illegally renting substandard rvs to the unhoused, letting them live in poor conditions. think of slumlords that reference. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes has more on the proposal. leaders hope will help build a better bay area. >> we walk and come and get some water. >> juanita macias and her husband live in one of the dozens of rvs seen in this area in san jose. theirs isn't one of the ones connected to this water source, so they come to it a

. >> the ice arrest of pro-palestinian demonstrator mahmoud khalil heads to court today. protesters opposing his detention and planned deportation filled lower manhattan on tuesday. khalil is being held in louisiana. his lawyers want him back in new york, arguing he has not broken any laws. khalil is a permanent legal resident. the white house wants him deported. based on a 1952 law regarding non-americans considered adversarial to national security interests. >> new images of a missing university of pittsburgh junior have emerged in the dominican republic. as the search now moves into its sixth full day today. abc's erielle reshef is in the dominican republic. >> law enforcement in the dominican republic searching for missing 20 year old university of pittsburgh student sudiksha koenen. poring over this hotel surveillance video, piecing together a timeline of the last moments before she vanished. koenen, seen on the video, headed to the beach with her friends around 4 a.m. after visiting a nightclub in their hotel complex some two hours later. the rest of the group seen

his name is mahmoud khalil.s a well-known activist who helped lead last year's demonstrations at columbia university, from where he recently graduated. i.c.e. arrested khalil over the weekend, and his attorney says the officer cited a state department order and said they would revoke his green card. in a social media post, homeland security officials accused khalil of leading, quote, activities aligned to hamas. cnn's gloria pazmino is following this case. gloria, what more is the president saying about why he was arrested? well, so. >> far, brianna, from. >> the information we have gathered, it looks like this is one of the first actions that the trump administration is taking after the president promised to deport international students who had participated in many of the protests against the israel-gaza war last year. as you know, many of those protests took place here in new york city. columbia became sort of the epicenter of the activity, along with several other campuses across the nation. the president ju

tonight anger spilling on to new york city sidewalks after federal immigration agents arrested mahmoud khalil, who his lawyer says is a legal permanent resident with a green card. khalil recently finished a masters at columbia and helped lead pro-palestinian protests on campus. his lawyer adding he was detained on saturday in front of his wife, a u.s. citizen who is eight months pregnant. the department of homeland security says khalil led activities aligned to hamas, a designated terrorist organization. but tonight a federal judge stepping in, temporarily blocking any effort to remove khalil from the u.s. columbia became a flashpoint for protests against israel last spring. we interviewed khalil then. >> we want a divestment from the israeli occupation. >> reporter: in the wake of the nationwide protests, president trump has vowed to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses. today he called khalil's detainment the first arrest of many to come. >> any resident alien who commits a crime is eligible for deportation. >> reporter: dhs would not comment on what, if any, charges khalil is fac

mahmoud khalil's attorney says he was arrested yesterday at his university apartment. the attorney said the agents claimed they were acting on state department orders to revoke his student visa and green card. it comes after the trump administration cut $400 million in federal funding for columbia because of what the government describes as the school's failure to stop anti-semitism on campus. >>> the feds are starting to look into the price of eggs and whether the bird flu is solely to blame. we'll have more on that in "moneywatch." but not all poultry farms are suffering as kati weis found during a visit to a farm in alabama. >>> 900 laying here, 700 -- >> reporter: this northern alabama farm has been in keith's family for five generations. his business is booming because he has eggs, a commodity many farms can't produce. >> never had this many phone calls. >> reporter: last year he had to kill his flock after they got sick with a bacterial infection. >> symptoms near the avian flu. had to kill the flock and start over. >> reporter: because his birds weren't infected

residential building at columbia university and detained a prominent student and activist named mahmoud khalil. he's a palestinian and was one of the leaders of the gaza solidarity encampments last year. he also has a green card. the government agents told khalil's lawyer that they were executing a state department order to revoke his visa, his student visa. and there is some new reporting tonight that mahmoud's attorney does not even know where he has been taken. they were first told that he was sent to an ice facility in new jersey, but are now being told he may have been sent as far away as louisiana. and this comes just days after trump, at least one of the times that he had vowed to deport foreign students and imprison so-called agitators, or pro-hamas radical, involved in protests against israel's onslaught on gaza and two canceled $400 million in grants for columbia university. now, let's look back at the political climate that actually brought us here in the fall of 2023. you may recall, protests erupted across universities in america in response to israel's bombardment of gaza followi

it's for mahmoud khalil. he is the green card holding palestinian activist facing deportation over those anti-israel protests at columbia. here's what the white house press secretary said today this is an individual. >> who organized group protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed jewish american students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-hamas propaganda fliers with the logo of hamas. >> now, his attorney says her client did nothing illegal. and that leads us to a new segment we're calling. can they do that specifically? can the administration deport green card holder mahmoud khalil? we'll get some more answers about that. the hearing tomorrow. but here's the short answer for now. theoretically, yes, provided there is a legitimate basis under the statutes. now, i.c.e. has not publicly provided an explanation or a statutory basis as of yet, but the white house today said it's relying on a particular provision of the immigration and natio

we have not been told at all that khalil that mahmoud khalil directly was distributing this.y just say the group he was part of distributed this. is that enough to justify deportation? >> certainly not. and the fliers themselves are not enough. this press secretary used the word propaganda. >> what's another word for. >> propaganda? >> speech. and that's the problem here, is that we are talking about expression. now, there were. questions when mr. khalil was detained as to whether it was the unlawful conduct that we saw at columbia university post october 7th, or the. protected free expression. and that stuff. gets muddied. but what we've seen subsequent to that is marco rubio and president trump come out and say that they are targeting for mr. kailey leinz viewpoint. and that's a problem in this country. we have the first amendment. we can't tell people you can come to this country, but when you get here, you better watch what you say. and i think that's the message that's being sent to foreigners who are in this country right now. >> and, priscilla, what are you going to be

mahmoud khalil's attorney saying in a statement that he was wrongfully arrested by immigration agentsng his student visa was revoked, even though mahmoud is a legal permanent resident and not in the u.s. on a student visa. >> trying to clarify this with the university. >> reporter: khalil was one of the few protesters who shared his name during the protests last year. >> we want a divestment of israeli occupation. >> reporter: in a statement, columbia university acknowledging reports of i.c.e. around campus. this reported arrest coming on the heels of the trump administration canceling about $400 million in federal grants to columbia university. earlier last week, the president writing "agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came." nbc news has reached out to the state department, the department of homeland security, and i.c.e. the state department says they cannot comment on individual visa cases. khalil's attorney says they are unaware of his whereabouts right now. hallie? >> camila bernal, thank you. >>> to politics and the clock now ti

mahmoud khalil was arrested by ice agents acting on a state department order to revoke his green card. khalil helped lead columbia's student protest in support of a ceasefire deal in gaza. cnn's gloria pazmino has been following this story. what is the legal basis for the arrest? has the white house made that clear? >> so, sara, they have not made it clear. we also don't know what he has been charged with. hopefully, that's something we're going. >> to learn at tomorrow's. >> hearing in court. but we are getting some clues about how the administration is going. >> to. >> try and. >> justify the. >> detention of khalil. >> now, my. colleague priscilla alvarez got some brand new reporting this morning that secretary of state marco rubio personally approved the detention of khalil and that he is leaning on a portion of u.s. law known as the national. the nationality, the immigration and nationality act of 1952. and i want to just tell you a little bit about what it says, because it talks about the secretary having very broad authority to determine that if there is serious adverse foreign

lindsay, go ahead. >> reporter: referring to mahmoud khalil, the president has said this is the firstny arrests like this. does the administration have a rough estimate of how many arrests you are planning to make similar? >> secretary leavitt: i don't have an estimate. i do know that dhs, based on very good intel they have gathered at the direction of the president's executive order which made it very clear to the department of homeland security that engage in, as i said, in anti-american, anti-semitic, pro-hamas protests will not be tolerated, so since the president signed that executive order and since secretary has taken the oath at dhs, they have been using intelligence to identify individuals on our nation's colleges and universities, college campuses who have engaged in such behavior and activity and especially illegal activity. and so i don't have a readout on how many arrests will come but i know that dhs is actively working on it, and i also know that columbia university has been given the names of other individuals who have engaged in pro-hamas activity, and they are refusi

jake, as i speak to lawyers and advocates about this arrest, whether or not mahmoud khalil was going to get any sort of due process. now, the administration points to this so-called evidence. but the question here is whether that evidence is a proof of a crime. that would mean that khalil would be subject to deportation. now, green card holders can be deported if they commit certain crimes, but there is a whole due process that is supposed to happen. in fact, it's only an immigration judge who actually has the authority and the power to revoke a person's immigration status. it's not something that can just be done when a person is arrested. now, we heard from khalil's attorney on saturday. she she issued a statement and told us in part, quote, that i.s.i.s. arrests and detention of mahmoud follows the u.s. government's open repression of student activism, activism and political speech, specifically targeting students at columbia university for criticism of israel's assault on gaza. the u.s. government has made clear that they will use immigration enforcement as a tool to suppress tha

what is your reaction to mahmoud khalil arrest and his potential deportation? well. >> look, we're in this instance because universities for an entire year refused to enforce their code of conduct when it came to jewish students and jewish parents around the country looked at that and said, if this was happening to another minority group, it would not have gotten past lunchtime on the first day. but when it came to jewish students, assaulting them on college campus was okay, preventing them from going to to class was okay. and they weren't targeted because of their position on israel. no one asked them how they felt about netanyahu. they saw their jewish star. and so this was blatant anti-semitism and universities across this country couldn't enforce their code of conduct. so, look, i support the administration people here on student visas. if you're here on a tourist visa and you're going to hamas rally, then yeah, you probably shouldn't be here anymore. you should get due process in this country, but you probably shouldn't be here anymore. and so, you know, w

good morning. >> well, a. >> petition calling for mahmoud. >> khalil's release has. >> now exceeded.ities across the country, coast to coast, including protests planned for chicago today. also across the country. >> in california. >> as well, with protesters saying this is an infringement. infringement on the freedom of speech, some people saying it is one of the biggest threats to the freedom of speech in some 50 years or so to. you may recall that khalil was arrested from his university owned apartment. >> on saturday. >> night in front of his his pregnant wife. she's eight months pregnant. she's speaking out for the first time. releasing a statement, pleading. >> for his. >> release. >> asking people to see. >> it through her eyes and that she hopes and wants him to be by her side when they deliver their first baby. overnight, we are gaining some new insight from court documents that shows that khalil had actually reached out to the interim president here at columbia university the day before he was arrested, asking for legal protection and legal help. expressing concerns over rec

. >> crowds took to the streets of new york city to demand the release of mahmoud khalil, a columbia university pro-palestinian activist. >> this is the scariest thing on the first amendment i've seen from the federal government in many, many years. i mean, the only reason they detain this kid is because he took part in organizing demonstrations last year. >> that's uc law. san francisco professor matt coles khalil was arrested saturday night by federal immigration authorities, who, according to his attorney, said they were acting on a state department order to revoke his green card. a small group rallied for khalil on the uc berkeley campus monday. here's professor robert cohen of nyu. >> it's going to have a chilling effect, particularly on immigrant students. they'll be afraid if they express their first amendment rights to dissent, that they have to worry about being deported. >> khalil's arrest comes just days after the trump administration canceled $400 million worth of grants and contracts to columbia university for what has been called harassment of jewish students. coles doe

. >> mahmoud khalil, the. >> president has said this is the first of many arrests like this. does the administration have a rough estimate of how many arrests you're planning to make? similar? >> i don't have an estimate. i do know that dhs, based on very good intel, that they have gathered at the direction of the president's executive order, which made it very clear to the department of homeland security that engaging, as i said, an anti-american, anti-semitic, pro-hamas protests will not be tolerated. so since the president signed that executive order and since secretary of known has taken the oath at dhs, they have been using intelligence to identify individuals on our nation's colleges and universities, on our college campuses, who have engaged in such behavior and activity, and especially illegal activity. and so i don't have a readout on how many arrests will come. but i do know that dhs is actively working on it. and i also know that columbia university has been given the names of other individuals who have engaged in pro-hamas activity, and they are refusing to help d

evening news" roundup, beginning with protests in new york and los angeles today over the arrest of mahmoud khalilrmer columbia university student is facing deportation for leading last year's campus protests against israel's war with hamas. as a green card holder, khalil is a legal permanent resident. the trump administration says he can be deported for allegedly supporting hamas. >> john: the u.s. education department is laying off more than 1,000 workers, or roughly half of its workforce. it's part of the trump administration's plans to cut the size of the federal government. >> maurice: british authorities arrested an officer who was aboard the portuguese cargo ship that crashed into a u.s. tanker ship yesterday off the coast of england. he is facing the charge of gross negligent manslaughter. one member of his crew is missing and presumed dead. >> john: and federal regulators say there is a serious safety issue in the airspace around washington's reagan national airport. an investigation into the midair collision of a military helicopter and a regional jet in january found there have been man

. >> crowds took to the streets of new york city to demand the release of mahmoud khalil, a columbia university pro-palestinian activist. >> this is the scariest thing on the first amendment i've seen from the federal government in many, many years. i mean, the only reason they detain this kid is because he took part in organizing demonstrations last year. >> that's uc law. san francisco professor matt coles khalil was arrested saturday night by federal immigration authorities, who, according to his attorney, said they were acting on a state department order to revoke his green card. a small group rallied for khalil on the uc berkeley campus monday. here's professor robert cohen of nyu. >> it's going to have a chilling effect, particularly on immigrant students. they'll be afraid if they express their first amendment rights to dissent, that they have to worry about being deported. >> khalil's arrest comes just days after the trump administration canceled $400 million worth of grants and contracts to columbia university for what has been called harassment of jewish students. coles doe

. >> fox news alert: democrats and some on the left are rallying behind mahmoud khalil. he is anti-israel, anti-america, and hates jewish americans. a judge has blocked the anti-israel protesters deportation while the trial is playing out. he let a lot of what we saw on the campus of columbia university. he hates americans. he is pro-hamas affiliation there. fox news has learned that before immigration customs and enforcement arrested khalil for supporting a terrorist group, he was previously investigated as a potential national security threats. investigators paul also found anti-semitic and hateful posts on his social media. i'm harris faulkner, you are in "the faulker focus." president trump posted that this is the first arrest of many to come, and "we will find, apprehend, deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country never to return again." but many democrats are on the side of khalil, coming out against america in this ins instance. >> if you believe in constitutional rights, targeting this person and everybody knows that he has been vocal against the of the