Detained Columbia Student’s Lawyers Decry Warrantless Arrest
Columbia University students and alumni stage a protest at the main gates on Amsterdam Avenue, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi, in New Yor on April 21.
Photographer: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu/Getty Images
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Lawyers for Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil say they will argue that his deportation should be blocked after the Trump administration acknowledged he was arrested without a warrant.
The government said in a court filing Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents didn’t have a warrant when they took Khalil into custody in March outside a university-owned apartment building in New York where he lives with his wife.