Columbia University students chain themselves to gate in protest of Mahmoud Khalil's detention by ICE

Several Columbia University students person chained themselves to a gross to protestation Mahmoud Khalil's detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The students began protesting extracurricular Columbia University's St. Paul’s Chapel connected Wednesday afternoon, demanding that the instauration merchandise the names of the trustees "who gave Mahmoud Khalil’s sanction to ICE." The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Committee wrote connected X that "We volition not permission until our request is met."

"FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL. NAME THE TRUSTEE. Jewish students volition not leave. They volition stay chained to the field gates until @Columbia University is held accountable. WHO REPORTED MAHMOUD TO ICE?" the radical wrote connected X.

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Students chained themselves to the gates of Columbia University connected Wednesday to request accountability from assemblage trustees aft the apprehension of Mahmoud Khalil. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Students chained themselves to the gates of Columbia University connected Wednesday to request accountability from assemblage trustees aft the apprehension of Mahmoud Khalil. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A spokesperson for Columbia University told Fox News Digital that the individuals chained to the gross connected field were removed by the institution's nationalist information officers aft astir 2 hours.

"We are monitoring a disruption astatine the gross of St. Paul’s Chapel involving astir 4 individuals chained to a gate, which constitutes violations of the Rules of University Conduct. Individuals complied with the request for recognition but refused to permission the area. The chains were removed by Columbia’s Public Safety and the individuals were escorted disconnected campus.

Students chained themselves to the gates of Columbia University connected Wednesday to request accountability from assemblage trustees aft the apprehension of Mahmoud Khalil. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"We volition travel the process established successful the Rules of University Conduct for enforcing violations. Our absorption is connected preserving our halfway ngo to teach, create, and beforehand cognition portion ensuring a harmless field for our community," the spokesperson said. 

The protesters past sat extracurricular the gates with their arms linked and said they planned to enactment until Columbia shares "which trustee is liable for informing connected students," according to the Columbia Daily Spectator.

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Protesters show a banner from a balcony arsenic students chained themselves to the gates of Columbia University connected Wednesday to request accountability from assemblage trustees aft the apprehension of Mahmoud Khalil. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Around 80 protesters were conscionable extracurricular the St. Paul’s Chapel gross connected Columbia University's campus, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department told Fox News.

Protesters besides draped a poster disconnected of a adjacent overpass that read: "Free Mahmoud Khalil. Name the trustees."

Khalil, 1 of the leaders of the Columbia University anti-Israel encampment successful outpouring 2024, was detained by ICE agents successful New York City successful aboriginal March. The Department of Homeland Security alleged that Khalil "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated violent organization."

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Mahmoud Khalil allegedly played a large relation successful the protests against Israel astatine Columbia University. (Ted Shaffrey/File)

Khalil was calved successful Syria and came to the U.S. successful 2022 earlier becoming a imperishable nonmigratory successful 2024.