Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student who was born in Syria to Palestinian parents and is now a permanent U.S. resident, was arrested Saturday night by federal immigration agents at at his university-owned residence.

Prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for now following a procedural hearing in New York, days after he was arrested by federal officials at his Columbia University residence in an attempt by the Trump administration to deport him.

A DHS official defended Khalil’s detention in an interview on Thursday but did not provide additional details for his arrest.

Footage filmed by Noor Abdalla, Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, and posted by the American Civil Liberties Union shows the moment Khalil was detained by agents wearing plain clothes and badges.

The family of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States now at risk of deportation because he helped lead pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last spring, on Friday released a video of his recent arrest by U.