Federal prosecutors quietly filed more charges against Mahmoud Khalil, in an attempt to seemingly circumvent the first amendment debate.

The U.S. government has alleged that Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application.

The federal government is accusing a detained Columbia University student of not being completely forthcoming on his United States visa

The Trump administration – after accusing Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil of being a Hamas sympathizer without providing evidence – now says Khalil’s deportation is justified because he did not reveal connections to two organizations in his application to become a permanent US resident,