Students marched from Washington Square Tuesday to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil​, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University. Some arrests were made at City Hall.

When attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil enter the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York on Wednesday, they will have one mission in mind: to get their client, a Palestinian activist, released from an ICE facility in Louisiana and back to New York to be closer to legal counsel and family.

The White House complained that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the government’s effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrati