Officials said ICE arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the first high-profile pro-Palestinian protester detained by the administration, because he was a flight risk.

Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student who faces deportation, was detained without an arrest warrant last month, according to court documents released Thursday.

The Trump administration had no arrest warrant for former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil when he was detained, court documents on Thursday showed. In the documents, the government said the federal officials “had exigent circumstances to conduct the warrantless arrest” against Khalil and that the former lead negotiator for the pro-Palestinian arrest at Columbia was