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Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil

Columbia University graduate, pro-Palestinian activist

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Notable Quotes

"I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland."

"It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech. When their first effort to deport me was set to fail, they resorted to fabricating baseless and ridiculous allegations."

"The Trump administration is trying everything in its power to come after me, to put the full weight of the government to actually make an example out of me."

Stories

Cold war law revived to deport campus activists

Rule Changes

Free on bail until late February 2026; facing deportation order to Algeria

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 gave the Secretary of State power to deport noncitizens whose presence threatens U.S. foreign policy. For seven decades, that authority gathered dust. Then, on March 8, 2025, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil—a Columbia graduate student and green card holder—from his university apartment, invoking the Cold War-era statute to target him for his role negotiating on behalf of pro-Palestinian protesters.

Updated Jan 30