Former colleague Mahmoud KhalilPalestinian graduate student in Colombia recently spoke by ICE, and spoke after his arrest, saying that she feels “more safe with him” and claimed that he “hates America and everything she represents.”
the New York Post She stated that a colleague of Khalil, a Jewish graduate student, was afraid to defend her beliefs for fear of revenge against Khalil. Khalil described the presence of “treacherous” on the campus and said that she had been brought down one of her chapters because of him, and told this position, “I did not want to become a goal for him.”
Khalil, 30 years old, a Syrian -Syrian graduate student in Columbia University. One of the most prominent leaders of the Israel war protests was Gaza last year, many of which disrupted the classes and asked for a response to the heavy police.
He was arrested by ICE on March 8 and is currently being kept in a detention facility in Louisiana.
“Getting ready” because “ice is coming.”
Mahmoud Khalil, the left, the demonstrators, the right (AP Photo/Ted Shafrey | Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
While the Democrats and the media accused Trump administration From an attempt to eliminate freedom of expression, the administration said that Khalil is a terrorist sympathy to threaten national security.
After the arrest, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio I announced on X that the administration “will cancel visas and/or green cards for Hamas supporters in America so that they can be deported.”
The former colleague of Khalil said that although his appearance is normal, his speech left her and other Jewish students feel very threatened. She submitted complaints from Chapter VI with the Colombia administration, but the university did not take any action against it.
She said: “It would be almost easier if he was a terrifying man who seems to threaten people's punch in the face, but it was not.” “He was very soft and cautious with his words, which made him seem more treacherous, because he was very intended-he was never extra, it was very clear. He was never shirk.”
The Palestinian flag protesters carry a march on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, April 29, 2024. (Reuters/David de Deljado)
Since his arrest, the student said that she “felt safe on campus.”
“I really think this country may be safer without it here, just as I don't know how he got a green card,” she said.
“It seems that he hates America and everything it represents,” she added. “I think he did a lot to cause harm and violence here, and I can see him doing more.”
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Despite the criticism of the media, President Donald Trump “The first of many next,” said Khalil's arrest.
Trump wrote on the social truth: “After my former executive orders, Ice was proudly arrested and detained by Mahmoud Khalil, a fundamental student who is supportive of foreigners on the campus of Columbia University,” Trump wrote on the social truth. “We know that there are more students in Colombia and other universities across the country who participated in supportive activity, anti -Semitism and combating America, and the Trump administration will not tolerate.”
People meet in Fuli Square to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, March 10, 2025, in Manhattan. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune news service via Getty Images)
He added: “We will find, generate and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country – we will not return again.” “If you support terrorism, including slaughtering innocent men, women and children, your presence contradicts our national and external interests, and do not welcome you here.”
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On Friday, ICE arrested a second Colombia student, Laqa codiaFrom the West Bank and also participated in the Israeli protests of Gaza. Kordia was illegally present in the country despite the cancellation of the student visa in 2022.
Columbia University has not responded to a request for comment by Fox News Digital by publishing time.
The Ministry of Justice also achieves whether the university intentionally hides the students illegally. Katrina Armstrong, Chief of Colombia, Catherina Armstrong, issued a statement saying that the university “will stand by its values”, but it did not respond directly to the achievement of the Ministry of Justice.
