A graduate’s arrest and Trump’s ‘pincer attack’ on higher education

The administration is cutting funds and threatening what it sees as liberal bastions, such as Columbia University, where it detained Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestinian activism

If Donald Trump thought few Americans would care about the deportation of an Arab student protest leader accused of supporting terrorism and antisemitism at an elite university then he was wrong on several counts.

Trump accused the student, Mahmoud Khalil, of being pro-Hamas" and hailed his detention by immigration officers, in front of his pregnant American wife as she waved her husbands permanent residence card, as the first arrest of many to come".