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US alleges Columbia student covered up his work for UNRWA (www.reuters.com)

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March 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has alleged that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application, saying that should be grounds for deportation.

The U.N. agency known as UNRWA provides food and healthcare to Palestinian refugees and has become a flashpoint in the Israeli war in Gaza. Israel contends that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, leading the U.S. to halt funding of the group.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on March 8 detained Khalil, a prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian campus protests that rocked the New York City campus last year, and sent him to Louisiana in an attempt to remove him from the country.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The story here is how pathetic it is that as a country we are making university applicants nervous to talk about working for an emergency aid relief organization for vulnerable people when applying to go to their dream university/college.

Fuck my country.