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Trump warns that arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be ’first of many’

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Mahmoud Khalil is a lawful U.S. resident who was a graduate student at Columbia until December .

He is the first person known to be detained for deportation under Trump ’s promised crackdown on student protests.

A federal judge in New York City orders that Khalil not be deported while the court considers a legal challenge.

A few hundred protesters rallied near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Manhattan on Monday .

Khalil previously graduated from the Lebanese American University in Beirut with a computer science degree.

He previously worked at the British Embassy in Beirut ’s Syria office, according to his biography.

“At what point does this process stop?” a Columbia sophomore asks.