Summary
ICE agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s encampment movement, claiming his student visa was revoked.
However, his attorney Amy Greer states he has a green card, not a student visa.
Despite filing a habeas corpus petition, Greer can’t locate where Khalil is being held, noting his eight-months-pregnant wife couldn’t find him at a New Jersey facility.
The arrest follows Trump’s March 4 social media threat to defund universities allowing “illegal protests” and deport “agitators.”
Harris of the Biden Harris administration that was arresting student protestors from the start?
Or Harris of the Biden Harris administration that deported more people than trump while dropping the number of new visas issued?
Did they disappear or deport people with green cards?
Answering a question with a question is pretty shitty.
They made a statement. You responded with leading questions that implied the statement is factually incorrect. The premise of your questions was also incorrect - the previous administration opposed the protests, but they did not send federal agents after protesters for arrests or deportations. Unlike the current administration.
Rather than answer (mis)leading questions, OP responded with questions to force you to explicitly answer whether their original statement is incorrect. Did Harris do this? Would Harris have done this? They’re fair questions. But I guess only you get to ask questions around here.
It was to help you realize the absurdity of your attempt at whataboutism.
These things are not the same.
That’s not whataboubtism is. Deporting people regardless of circumstance and shutting down free speech are the same as shutting down free speech and deporting someone regardless of circumstance.
Yeah, it’s failed whataboutism.
News: “Trump admin deports completely legal green card holder.”
You: “but the Biden admin deported a lot of people, too!”
But not green card holders. Which is the point, Captain “they’re all the same.”
That wasn’t the comment I responded to, this comment thread is about Harris. I responded about Harris.
And yes, this one has a green card, so instead of being disappeared into jail for an indeterminate amount of time later to be released on court order, he’s disappeared into jail with his green card suspended later to be released on court order.
Yes, this comment thread is about how Harris wouldn’t be deporting green card holders.
Did you really miss the context that badly, or are you just really separate to equate Trump and Biden/Harris?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/04/09/green-card-essential-worker-deported-family-separated-column/7127918002/
Looks like yes, if you look for the stories. ICE is terrible no matter the administration.
Another one: https://archive.md/AKDGo
Dude was deported when Trump was in office. But sure, blame Biden for it to show how committed you are to being uncommitted.
Pretending everything else is equal, there is a world of difference, legally, from a “pending green card” and actually having one.
Yes, ICE is terrible, generally, but quit pretending the current admin is the same as what we could have had.
I learned about this only recently, and was very disappointed on this.
It’s made me examine my own biases that I’ve only “grumbled” about Biden’s relatively quiet acceptance of Israeli genocide, and now understanding he deported protestors. I’d desperately want to understand what drives the tacit support there. That said: The “Genocide Joe” tagline didn’t ever convince me.
EDIT: Wow, and now I’m being thrown back in a loop and wondering if the links I just came across earlier today were correct, or if I was reading info out of context. Sounds as though, yes, ICE kept deporting in often suspect circumstances under Biden, but those were unrelated to protests? I’ll…leave this comment up as a public lesson in how easy it is to be misinformed while I keep reading to understand as best I can.
Were student protesters arrested by the Biden administration? I did not hear about this. Link?
Biden did support the crackdowns and arrests of about 3000 pro Palestinian protesters, including a law to label the protests as antisemitic and target universities that ‘tolerate’ the (peaceful) protests. He didn’t deport any protesters. He did back both that law and the law that can label any pro-palestinian (and any pro- marginalized group) organization as’ supporters of terrorism’ to revoke federal funding and add tax penalties, both of which fit into Project Esther, the plan Trump is currently enacting as part of Project 2025
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/4/advocates-warn-trumps-threat-to-deport-pro-palestine-students-harms-all
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/1/us-house-passes-controversial-bill-that-expands-definition-of-anti-semitism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Strategy_to_Counter_Antisemitism
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-house-passes-bill-targeting-charities-and-pro-palestine-groups
I’m aware that Biden was somewhat hostile towards the protesters but that’s not what was claimed. None of this really answers the question of whether the Biden administration arrested protestors. That would be highly unusual since most protests are handled by local police.