An anti-Israel protester of the University of Columbia was arrested by immigration and customs control agents of the United States (ICE) on Monday at an immigration office in Vermont.
Mohsen Mahdawi, who was a student leader of Anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, was arrested after arriving at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Office in Colchester, took a citizenship test of the United States, according to the intersection.
Following Mahdawi’s arrest, his lawyers “presented a request for habeas corpus” to question “the legality of their detention,” according to the exit.
“The Mohsen Mahdawi petition is a permanent legal resident of the United States on the road to naturalization,” said habeas corpus. “It has a hero a green card during the last year. This case refers to the detention of reprisals and directed by the Government and tried to eliminate Mr. Mahdawi for its constitutionally protected discourse.”
Habeas Corpus’s request continued to observe that the Trump administration seems to “base the elimination of Mr. Mahdawi on the determination of Rubio and section 237 (a) (4) (c) (i) of the immigration and nationality law”:
It seems that respondents seek to base the elimination of Mr. Mahdawi on the determination of Rubio and Section 237 (A) (4) (c) (i) of the Immigration and Nationality Law, a rarely used provision that the respondents used to recently detain another permanent legal species.
Before and after the arrest of Mr. Mahdawi, the Government has made it intended to retaliate and punish people like Mr. Mahdawi who advocated the high fire and finished blood spill in Gaza. The actions of respondents clearly violate the first amendment, which protects Mahdawi’s right to talk about matters of public concern and prevents the government from cooling constitutionally protected discourse.
Mahdawi’s lawyer, Luna Droubi, told the intersection that Mahdawi was “illegal arrested today without other reason other than the Palestinian identity.”
The American district judge William K. Sessions III ordered that Mahdawi “was not retired from the United States or moved from the territory of the Vermont district pending a greater order of” the court.
According to the departure, Shai Davidai, assistant business professor at Columbia Business School, described Mahdawi “as an anti-Semitic and Pro-Ahamas,” after Davidai and Mahdawi with coffee:
In December 2023, Mahdawi asked Columbia professor Shai Davidai, a controversial Pro-Israel figure at school, to drink coffee. The two with, but Mahdawi then said that Davidai left in the middle of the coffee. Less than two months after the meeting, Davidai published a Mahdawi video on Twitter in a thread that characterized him other protest organizers such as Anti-Semitic and Pro-Hama. (Davidai did not promote a request for comments)
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Peter Welch (D-VT) and Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) issued a joint statement in response to Mahdawi’s trial, describing its arrest as “immoral, inhuman and illegal.”
“Early today, Mohsen Mahdawi or White River Junction, Vermont, entered an immigration office so it was supposed to be the final step in their citizenship process,” said the statement. “On the other hand, it was arrested and eliminated handcuffed by civilians, armed people, individuals with their faces covered. These people refused to provide information about where it was being tasks or would happen to them. This is legal. The states must have due process under the law and immediately liberated from the arrest.”
Mahdawi’s trial occurs after ice agents in March arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who had graduated from Columbia University and also directed Anti-Israel protests.
