
‘Safer without him’: Columbia student claims classmate arrested by ICE 'hates America’
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A former classmate of Mahmoud Khalil spoke out after his arrest saying she feels “safer with him gone" and claimed that he “hates America and everything it stands for."
Khalil, 30, is a Syrian-born Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University. He was one of the most prominent leaders of last year’s Israel-Gaza war protests, many of which disrupted classes and required heavy police response. Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
He was arrested by ICE on March 8 and is currently being kept at a detention facility in Louisiana.
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