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

Protesters Gather Outside
Hundreds protest outside a New York court against the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder and recent Columbia graduate, on Wednesday. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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 husband‘s permanent residence card, as the “first arrest of many to come”.

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