House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday defended the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who lead last year's demonstrations at Columbia University protesting Israel and the war in Gaza. Johnson, who visited Columbia's campus in April 2024 during the protests, said "this is just getting started" and suggested there would be more arrests of student activists who he said made Jewish classmates feel unsafe. Khalil and other Columbia students had set up an encampment on the school's main

Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University's 2024 student encampment protests, was arrested in New York City by federal immigration authorities who claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney. In a statement to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security said Khalil's arrest was "in support of President Trump's executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism," alleging the former student "led acti