Columbia University

Columbia University is conceding to the Trump administration’s demands to step up efforts to crackdown on anti-Israel protests on campus and reform its admissions process in order to hold onto millions of dollars in federal funding. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Columbia University agreed to implement a suite of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

Detained Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil appeared briefly Friday in immigration court at a remote Louisiana detention center as his lawyers fight in multiple venues to try to free him.

The deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil is being moved to New Jersey. Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident with a green card, has been held in a detention facility in Louisiana for almost two weeks, and has not been charged with any crime. The Trump administration has claimed, without evidence, Khalil led activities aligned with Hamas and spread propaganda during pro-Palestinian...

Confronted with huge cuts to its federal funding, Columbia University’s leaders face a grim decision: They can yield to the Trump administration’s demands over allegations of antisemitism — ceding extraordinary control to the federal government — or they can fight back, potentially risking even more debilitating cuts in an escalating clash.

A Columbia University student activist who was detained by the U.S. government over his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations has the right to challenge the legality of his detention, but the case should be heard in New Jersey, rather than in New York or Louisiana, a judge ruled Wednesday. Mahmoud Khalil, 30, a legal U.S. resident with no criminal record,...

Mahmoud Khalil said he is being targeted as part of an effort to repress Palestinian voices in a letter dictated from a Louisiana immigration center.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed “illegal aliens” on its campus, one of its top officials said Friday, as the Trump administration intensified its campaign to deport foreigners who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school last year. Agents with the Department of Homeland Security searched two university residences with a warrant Thursday evening. No...

The American Civil Liberties Union released a 2-minute video documenting the arrest last weekend of Mahmoud Khalil, an activist who helped lead many protests on Columbia University’s campus last year. “Plainclothes agents detain and take Mahmoud Khalil from his home. His wife, Noor Abdalla, who is 8 months pregnant, recorded the video,” the ACLU wrote in a caption posted to…

The Trump administration’s crackdown on college campuses is ramping up with the arrest of another student at Columbia University accused of taking part in what they describe as pro-Hamas protests. NBC News 4 New York’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

A second Columbia University student involved with last year’s protests has been arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with Homeland Security Investigations, while another had her student visa revoked and self-deported, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday. Columbia University couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. The night before, DHS agents searched the dorm rooms of two...

A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana. The request was made Wednesday during a hearing in New York City. Khalil is a Columbia University graduate student whom the Trump Administration is trying to deport over his role in pro-Palestinian protests at the...

Tracie Strahan reports.

More than a hundred demonstrators made their way into Trump Tower in midtown, calling on President Donald Trump to release the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who’s facing deportation. The NYPD said they arrested 98 protesters and hauled them away on buses. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests in Spring 2024 and temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated.

A New York judge is deciding what’s next for Mahmoud Khalil, who helped organize pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University in 2024. Protesters gathered outside federal court demanding his release. Khalil was taken to a detention center in Louisiana and will stay there for now, though his attorneys want him returned to New York. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana. The request was made Wednesday during a hearing in New York City. Khalil is a Columbia University graduate student whom the Trump Administration is trying to deport over his role in pro-Palestinian protests at the...

Romney Smith reports on today’s court hearing for the pro-Palestinian activist arrested by ICE.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead student protests at Columbia University, faces deportation after being arrested over the weekend by federal immigration officials.

A crowd in the hundreds gathered at Washington Square Park called for the release of former Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. In 2024, Khalil was one of the leaders inside Columbia’s campus protests of the Israel-Hamas war. Federal immigration agents picked up Khalil, a permanent resident with a green card, on Saturday Columbia student-housing apartment. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo...