The FBI also reached out to Mahdawi late last year but decided not to arrest or take any action against him at the time.
An anti-Israel protester from Columbia University was arrested on Monday by immigration officials while he was halfway through an appointment in Vermont to get his U.S. citizenship. Mohsen Madawi, a Palestinian student from the West Bank, was arrested at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office in Burlington, the Intercept reported.
Madawi has been living in the U.S. for more than 10 years and already holds a green card. However, it now appears that the Madawi’s stay in the United States could be cut short by the Trump administration after he was found to be involved in anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus up until last spring.
End of the Road
A video shared on X on Monday appeared to show Mahdawi in handcuffs being led by federal agents who then put him into an unmarked car. „It’s kind of a death sentence“, Mahdawi, who previously led Columbia’s Palestinian student union, said, according to the Intercept.
