Plainclothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a recently graduated leader of the Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University on Saturday, according to his lawyer and student organizers, sparking fears of a long-feared federal crackdown on campus activists.
Mahmoud Khalil, who is Palestinian, had just entered the lobby of his university-owned apartment building near the New York campus when agents approached him and his eight-months-pregnant wife, asking for his identification and saying he was under arrest because the State Department had revoked his student visa.
