The Department of Homeland Security arrested a student involved in last spring’s Columbia University pro-Palestinian protests Friday, while another exited the United States on her own accord. Leqaa Kordia,

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted a video of Ranjani Srinivasan at the airport and said that anyone "advocating for violence and terrorism should not be in the country".

A former Columbia University student involved in the anti-Israel protests used a newly minted app for illegal migrants to self-deport

Over 100 protestors walked across the UCLA campus, marching from Royce Quad to Murphy Hall, chanting, ‘Free Mahmoud Khalid now.’

The protests kicked off following the Saturday arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took him into custody at his university-owned residence near Columbia’s

The Trump administration is tightening its grip on efforts to quash pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses, even as a protest over the detention of activist Mahmoud Khalil flared at the president’s New York City residence and resistance efforts continue in the courts and beyond.

Columbia University announced punishments, including expulsions and suspensions, for students who occupied Hamilton Hall in a pro-Palestinian protest last year.

Columbia University on Thursday said it had doled out a range of punishments to students who occupied a campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests. The announcement came a week after President Donald Trump's administration announced that it had canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts in response to what it said was the Ivy League school's poor response to antisemitism on campus.