The Trump administration – after accusing Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil of being a Hamas sympathizer without providing evidence – now says Khalil’s deportation is justified because he did not reveal connections to two organizations in his application to become a permanent US resident,

Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute filed suit in US District Court in Boston on behalf of the American Association of University Professors and its campus chapters at Harvard, NYU, and Rutgers,

He remains in detention in Louisiana as his attorneys fight his detention and the Trump administration argues he "led activities aligned to Hamas."