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is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a former Columbia University student over his involvement in the pro-Palestine protests that swept the campus over the past year, even though he has a green card and was never charged with a crime. Columbia, the site of a monthslong pro-Palestine encampment, became a particular obsession for right-wingers and liberal Zionists alike, who accused the university of turning a blind eye to campus antisemitism even as it sent the New York Police Department to arrest its own students. This latest arrest signals that the Trump administration is similarly determined to punish protesters — and provides a glimpse into the surveillance tools it will exploit to accomplish that. Mahmoud Khalil, who graduated from the university’s School of International and Public Affairs last December, was picked up by I ... Read full article.