Trump gloated about the arrest on Monday. “Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University,” the president wrote. “This is the first arrest of many to come.” Donald Trump signed an executive order in January targeting what he described as “Hamas sympathizers on college campuses.” The president has also threatened to revoke federal funding from universities that allow what he called “illegal” protests. Trump has attacked Columbia, pulling $400 million in funding, alongside nine other universities that had pro-Gaza encampments and protests. The Trump administration claims these protests are antisemitic rather than First Amendment-protected rallies against a brutal assault on Gaza.

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by Peter Wade, Rolling Stone.

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