ICE did not have warrant for Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest - now Homeland Security claims ‘they did not need one’ - Homeland Security says its agent believed the student activist was trying to leave the sce

The Department of Homeland Security defended the warrantless arrest by saying it feared Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident, would flee.

The Trump administration had no arrest warrant for former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil when he was detained, court documents on Thursday showed. In the documents, the government said the federal officials “had exigent circumstances to conduct the warrantless arrest” against Khalil and that the former lead negotiator for the pro-Palestinian arrest at Columbia was