
The protests throughout the country plan after arresting former Columbia University Activities by immigration.
The nationwide protests were planned this weekend after that. Mahmud Kalil Former Columbia University Student Activity was arrested by immigration agencies, causing tension during Trump’s management and student movement about immigration policies.
The 30 -year -old Khalil has been detained by entering the city and a customs agent in the middle of the night last week, resulting in evil in the past few days. Calil, the algia citizen of the Palestinian descent help to bring the protests of the Palestinians at Columbia University last spring–
The protest calls for release in various cities, including New York City, Boston Phoenix Charlotte, Oklaho Hama City Miami and India Napolis on Saturday and Sunday.
Dozens of protesters gathered in the Times Square on Saturday afternoon, wearing a traditional Papali -style scarf, known as Kuffiyehs and waving Palestine flags.
“Release Mahmoud now!” The protesters shouted.
Grant Miner, a former president of the Union, who represents thousands of Columbia Students who have been fired and fired this week, mentioning the crowd. He explained that Mahmud’s detention was “The campaign of fear”
“We have to stand together to tell Trump and his billionaire friends that we will not stand for this intimidation and support civil rights in this country,” he said.
To show the arrest of Calil Trump’s management referred to a vague foreign policy sentence, which allowed the government to expel foreigners outside the country, which is considered a national security threat. The Ministry of Security claims that Kalil “brings activities that are consistent with Hamas, a terrorist organization that has been assigned.”

On Monday, the central government judge Temporarily blocked Trump’s administration from the expelling of the permanent residents of the country, while he challenges his exile.
Calil File amendment And complaints in the central district court in Manhattan on Thursday, stating that he is the target of “Detention, retaliation and trying to withdraw students because of the constitutional protests.” Calilian graduated in Colombia in December 2024 and is expected to graduate in the spring.
Immigration officers are holding the 30 -year -old in Luzana and his lawyer has filed a petition to him to New York City. His wife, American, pregnant for eight months
“I ask you to see Mahdu through my eyes as a loved husband and father in the future to our baby.” She said in a statement through Calil’s defense on Monday. “I need help from you to bring it back home, so he is here beside me, holding my hand in the birth room because we welcome our first child in this world.”
Trump management sets the target of university protesters.
The arrest of Khalil was the first effort to comply with the campaign of President Donald Trump to international students who were exiled in support of Palestinians in the country in the country in the past spring.
On Tuesday, a PhD student from India, which DHS was accused of supporting Hamas who reported himself to Canada. And on Friday, another Palestinian student participated in the protest of Colombia last year, which was stated by DHS as LeQaa Kordia. Caught For her student visa that is accused of excess
“It is a special privilege that receives a visa to live and study in the United States,” said the DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday, “When you support violence and terrorism that should revoke the privileges and you should not be in this country.”
The DHS agent also invaded two Columbia dormitory on Thursday evening. But no arrest University statement– Comment on the attack last Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blan said that the Ministry of Justice is “see that the previous event of Columbia violates the civil rights law and the crime of terrorism.”
The rights of civil rights and protesters condemned the central government in Columbia as a free speech violation. The protesters display demonstrations this week at both universities and internal. Trump TowerLocated in Manhattan
Columbia’s international students show fear of many people. Tell NBC news Last Friday, they hesitated to criticize Trump’s management due to fear of impact.
The university journalism school said that officials and students are “witnesses and experienced amazing colds.”
“We do not have to agree with the political opinion of any person who understands that these threats are cut into the core of the meaning of life in democracy,” Journalism School, said in Friday, “The use of international criticism in parallel to the defamation campaign in order to use the laws – even threatening to close the audio or to close the independent media”.
Columbia University in a spotlight that stared
The arrest is part of Trump’s wider effort to “deeply root”. “Simmarking Simmark in Schools and College Campus” And may not have any other college campus in the country, more attention for the Palestinian protests last year more than Colombia.
For several weeks in the past spring, student activists have exhibited protests every day. Occupy the university building And established many dozen camps on the lawn of the university, inspiring similar settings in the College Campus nationwide The fuel from the Israeli war in Gaza is the motivation for the university to push their university to withdraw from the company that connects to the Israeli government. The movement sparked a severe debate in the campus, with some students showing concerns about the anti -Jews.
In the week before the arrest of Trump’s management, Colombia separated. Announced to cancel Approximately 400 million dollars to give to the university to the university. The management refer to the “non -continuous non -schooling in the face of the ongoing abuse of Jewish students.”
Such movements are considered never before, with the central government entering the business of private universities.
Columbia responded with a commitment to work with the central government to restore capital.
“We seriously comply with Columbia’s legal obligations and understand how serious this announcement is and determined to fight against Jewish and build confidence in safety and well -being of our students and staff.” The university spokesman said to NBC News last week.
On Thursday, the university said Was suspended or fired Some students who participate and revoke the certificate of some graduates temporarily.
“I am not surprised that the university is choosing to throw students and workers under the bus for funds,” Miner said to NBC News, “we know how much is the cost of Columbia’s morality.”