A Manhattan federal judge denied the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss Khalil's challenge to his arrest but allowed the case to move to New Jersey.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a lawsuit challenging the deportation of former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil to be moved from a district court in New York to New Jersey, where the antiwar activist was first detained after he was arrested by immigration officers earlier this month.

Khalil said he was targeted for his pro-Palestinian activism and as part of the Trump administration’s “broader strategy to suppress dissent.”

A detained Columbia University student says the subject of bedbugs never arose after he was arrested and flown to a Louisiana detention center by authorities who now say bedbugs helped force the long

A Columbia University student arrested and threatened with deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel gave his first public statement Tuesday, saying that his detention is indicative of “anti-Palestinian racism” demonstrated by both the Trump and Biden administrations.