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Trump Admin Detains Pro-Palestinian Campus Protest Leader

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through Columbia University's campus in New York in October 2024 (Credit: AFP)

Immigration officers have arrested a leader of the protests at Columbia University against Israel's war in Gaza, authorities said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators.

Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent faces of the university's protest movement that erupted in response to Israel's conduct of the war, was arrested on Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on X.

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