Trump is using Mahmoud Khalil to test his mass deportation plan | Heba Gowayed

The Palestinian student's arrest at Columbia University is a harbinger of what's to come on college campuses

On 8 March, Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, was apprehended from university housing by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents. Khalil, a Palestinian and student leader at the Columbia encampments last year, was told by the arresting officers that his green card had been revoked", an action that only an immigration judge can decide. It has since been revealed that he is in Ice custody in La Salle, Louisiana, a detention site notorious for abuse.

On Truth Social, Donald Trump celebrated the apprehension of Khalil, whom he called a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student" and bragged of more arrests to come.