Trump vows anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil was 'first arrest of many to come'

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social connected Monday to code the ICE apprehension of Mahmoud Khalil, whom helium called "a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student connected the field of Columbia University."

"This is the archetypal apprehension of galore to come. We cognize determination are much students astatine Columbia and different Universities crossed the Country who person engaged successful pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration volition not tolerate it," Trump said successful a post. "Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We volition find, apprehend, and deport these violent sympathizers from our state — ne'er to instrumentality again."

The president went connected to accidental that galore protesting Khalil's apprehension astatine universities are not students, but alternatively "paid agitators."

Monday afternoon, a fistful of protesters gathered extracurricular the entranceway to Columbia University successful New York City, chanting "free Mahmoud Khalil" and "cops and ICE disconnected campus." They had a motion bearing the societal media grip for The Revcoms, a self-described radical of "revolutionary communists."

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Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is connected the Columbia University field successful New York astatine a pro-Palestinian protestation encampment connected April 29, 2024.  (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

"If you enactment terrorism, including the slaughtering of guiltless men, women, and children, your beingness is contrary to our nationalist and overseas argumentation interests, and you are not invited here," Trump's station continued. "We expect each 1 of America’s Colleges and Universities to comply."

Students assertion Khalil was a person of protests and encampments connected the Columbia University field for months. He was taken into custody astatine his university-owned flat connected Manhattan's Upper West Side connected Saturday. 

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Protesters astatine the entranceway to New York City's Columbia University connected March 10, 2025.  (Fox News)

ICE agents told Khalil that they were acting connected a State Department bid to revoke his greenish paper and pupil visa, according to Khalil's attorney, Amy E. Greer. She released a connection alleging that ICE agents wrongfully arrested Khalil.

"Last nighttime ICE agents wrongfully arrested Mahmoud Khalil, claiming his pupil visa was revoked – adjacent though Mahmoud is ineligible imperishable nonmigratory (green card) and not successful the U.S. connected a pupil visa," Greer said. "Confronted with that fact, the ICE agents detained him anyway."

Anti-Israel agitators staged encampments connected Columbia University's campus. (Getty Images)

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Muslim civilian rights enactment CAIR National besides came to Khalil's defence and claimed successful a station connected X that helium "is a lawful imperishable resident" and vowed that the "fight is conscionable starting."

Khalil is present being held astatine the Jena/Lasalle Detention installation successful Louisiana, ICE confirmed to Fox News. The installation serves arsenic the Central Louisiana Ice Processing Center and has a capableness of much than 1,000.

Fox News' Brendan McDonald, Stepheny Price and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.