Immigration agents with the Department of Homeland Security have detained a recent Columbia University graduate for helping lead campus encampment protests. Mahmoud Khalil, who is an Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent, is a green card holder and is married to a U.S. citizen; his wife is eight months pregnant. Immigration officials told Khalil’s lawyer his green card was being revoked. The journalist Prem Thakker, who broke the story and who will be joining us later, says DHS claims Khalil “led activities aligned to Hamas.” His arrest follows Trump’s executive orders targeting free speech and protests on college campuses.

The arrest came as the Trump administration withdrew $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia for failing to address so-called antisemitic harassment at its campus. In fact, Columbia repeatedly targeted Palestinian rights protesters on its campuses and called in police to brutally crack down on a peaceful student movement. We’ll have more on these stories later in the broadcast.