Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt referenced a federal statute that allows the secretary of state to deport immigrants who are ‘adversarial’ to U.S. ‘foreign policy and national security interests’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt alleged that Khalil had played a role in organizing demonstrations at which fliers were handed out bearing a logo for Hamas, which she did not display.

The Trump administration said it is using intelligence collected by the Department of Homeland Security to identify international students who participated in protests against the Israel-Hamas war across dozens of college campuses last year,