Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana until at least next week following an initial court hearing in New York on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s plans to deport him for his role in Columbia University campus protests against Israel.

Lawyers for an activist who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University are expected to face off Wednesday in court with federal officials who want him deported. A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted Mahmoud Khalil's removal,

A US judge temporarily blocked the deportation of a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University who was arrested over the weekend after he led anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League campus.

Columbia University is fighting two wars at once. One rages publicly against President Trump, whose administration in recent days ordered the arrest of a student protester and canceled federal funds to the Ivy League school over allegations of antisemitism.

The federal government has terminated $400 million in funds to the Ivy League university although investigations into alleged antisemitic harassment are continuing. The Trump administration’s sudden and fairly unprecedented termination of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to Columbia University raises worries among the nation’s K-12 schools that something similar could happen to their funding,

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