United States President Donald Trump took credit on Monday for the recent arrest of pro-Palestine Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, warning that it was the first "of many to come."
Trump called Khalil a "Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student" and said there are "many more" students at Columbia and other universities in the US "who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity." The president warned that his administration will not tolerate it and will "find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country."
Khalil was the first known university student to be arrested and detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) due to his role in student protests against the war in Gaza. Moreover, Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined a plan to revoke visas and green cards of Hamas supporters, to allow them to be deported from the country.
