ICE Arrest to Palestinian Activist with Green Card at Columbia University: Lawyer

Immigration and Customs Application Agents arrested the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, leader in the Movement of the Camp of the University of Columbia, on Saturday night, claiming that his student visa had been revoked, according to lawyer Amy Greer in a statement to ABC News.

However, Khalil is in the United States with a green card and not in a student visa, Greer said Sunday.

Despite informing the agents about their legal status, Ice stopped it, he said.

At one time during a phone call with agents, they hung on Greer, said a representative of his law firm ABC News.

Greer is challenging his arrest and has not been able to locate where he is stopped, he said.

“During the night we present a request for habeas corpus on behalf of Mahmoud challenging the validity of his arrest and detention,” he said. “We currently do not know Mahmoud’s precise whereabouts.”

Khalil’s wife, who has eight months of American pregnancy and citizen, could not find him in an ice center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she was supposedly transferred, Greer said, and added that she could have been transferred to Louisiana.

“The arrest and detention of ICE of Mahmoud follow the open repression of the US government. “The United States government has made it clear that they will use the application of immigration as a tool to suppress that speech.”

The alleged arrest occurred only a few days after President Donald Trump went to social networks that threatened with disbursed universities that allowed “illegal protests” and affirm that “agitators” will be sent back to their countries of origin.

“All federal funds will stop for any university, school or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or will be permanently sent to the country from which they came. US students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. Without masks! Thank you for their attention to this matter,” he published about Trump in Social on March 4 on March 4.

Columbia issued the following statement on Sunday: “There have been ice reports throughout the campus. Columbia has continued and will continue to follow the law. According to our long -standing practice and the practice of cities and institutions throughout the country, the police must have a court order to enter the university areas, including university buildings.”

“Columbia undertakes to comply with all legal obligations and support our student body and the campus community,” the statement continued.