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President Donald Trump touted the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the weekend — signaling a larger campaign to punish anti-Israel protesters on college campuses.

“This is the first arrest of many to come,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday, linking Khalil’s detainment to his previously signed executive orders to combat antisemitism on college campuses.

He added: “We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. … We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.”

Khalil, a permanent resident originally from Syria, was arrested at his university-owned residence on Saturday night, according to a statement his attorney Amy Greer made to The Associated Press. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the arrest in a statement posted to X, saying Khalil “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”

Amy Greer did not immediately return POLITICO’s request for comment through her law firm, Dratel & Lewis.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed DHS’ stance, saying on X that the Trump administration would be “revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”

The Trump administration’s legal argument for Khalil’s detainment and possible deportation is unclear. Federal immigration law allows green cards to be revoked for various criminal offenses, including those involving “moral turpitude” and for anyone who “engages in terrorism-related activity.”

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