"Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, was asked about Khalil in a NewsNation interview on Wednesday. "It looks like he'll go to Algeria," said McLaughlin. "That's what the thought is right now." Khalil, a legal permanent resident, was the first of several student protesters to be targeted for deportation by the Trump administration over their pro-Palestinian activism. He was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and holds Algerian citizenship."
"McLaughlin warned other green card and visa holders that Khalil's fate was a "reminder," saying, "You are a guest in this country - act like it." Mamdani said in a press conference on Thursday that Khalil is a "New Yorker" who "should remain in New York City." He added that the deportation threat was "part of a larger attack on the freedom of speech that is especially pronounced when it comes to the use of that speech to stand up for Palestinian human rights.""
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is publicly supporting Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate and Palestinian protest leader facing possible rearrest and deportation to Algeria. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin indicated Khalil "looks like" he will be sent to Algeria and warned green card and visa holders to "act like" guests in the country. Khalil is a legal permanent resident born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and holds Algerian citizenship. Khalil was previously detained for months, released by a federal judge in June, and then subject to an appeals court reversal on Jan. 15. Separately, two 15-year-old boys were arrested in Brooklyn on charges related to spraying swastikas on a playground and were charged with aggravated harassment and criminal mischief as a hate crime.
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