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The Trump administration said it is using intelligence collected by the Department of Homeland Security to identify international students who participated in protests against the Israel-Hamas war across dozens of
college campuses last year, days after a Palestinian activist was detained
by federal agents over protests at Columbia University.
�They have been using intelligence to identify individuals on our nation�s colleges and universities who have engaged in such behavior and activity
and especially illegal activity,� White House Press Secretary Karoline
Leavitt told reporters during a news briefing Tuesday.
Leavitt did not provide more information about the intelligence she said
DHS was using for the targeted arrests.
According to Leavitt, DHS has also shared a list of student names with
Columbia University and accused the school of not cooperating with White
House efforts to identify them.
�Columbia University has been given the names of other individuals who
have engaged in pro-Hamas activity, and they are refusing to help DHS
identify those individuals on campus,� Leavitt said. �As the president
said very strongly in his statement yesterday, he is not going to tolerate
that and we expect all of America�s colleges and universities to comply
with this administration�s policy.�
Columbia University did not immediately return a request for comment.
Leavitt accused Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian student activist
arrested by federal agents officers last week, of organizing �group
protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish-American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college
campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda, flyers with the logo of Hamas.�
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/us/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-dhs-intelligence- protestors/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
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