There were a number of stories in Vermont about Vermonters rallying and/or protesting the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil for being a Pro-Palestinian Activist.
Here is an update on the whole entire huge, enormous situation, which has grown and expanded exponentially because President Trump’s Administration will tolerate foreign students only if they keep their mouths shut.
Please read all of the documents here and follow this case!
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.1.0.pdf
INTRODUCTION
1. Implementing executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the
defendant agencies have announced that they intend to carry out large-scale arrests, detentions,
and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests and
other related expression and association (the “ideological-deportation policy”). The defendant
agencies arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate and a legal permanent
resident, pursuant to this policy earlier this month; they revoked the visas of at least four others,
one of whom fled to Canada in fear of arrest; they supplied universities with the names of other
students they intend to target under the policy; and they launched new social media surveillance
programs aimed at identifying still others. After federal agents seized Khalil in the lobby of his
university-owned student housing, President Trump warned: “This is the first arrest of many to
come.”
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69784731/american-association-of-university-professors-v-rubio/
American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (1:25-cv-10685)
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Last Updated: July 5, 2025, 4:49 a.m.
Assigned To: William G. Young
Citation: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, 1:25-cv-10685, (D. Mass.)
Date Filed: March 25, 2025
Date of Last Known Filing: July 3, 2025
Cause: 28:1331 Fed. Question
Nature of Suit: 440 Civil Rights: Other
Jury Demand: None
Jurisdiction Type: U.S. Government Defendant
COMPLAINT against All Defendants Filing fee: $ 405, receipt number AMADC-10910511 (Fee Status: Filing Fee paid), filed by American Association of University Professors, American Association of University Professors-Harvard Faculty Chapter, American Association of University Professors at New York University, Rutgers American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers, Middle East Studies Association. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Category Form)(Clarke, Edwina) (Entered: 03/25/2025)
