Students gathered in New York City's Washington Square Tuesday to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this past weekend.

Mahmoud Khalil's detention appears to be one of the first efforts by Trump to fulfill his promise to seek the deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.

The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday sent letters to 60 colleges and universities it says are under investigation for Title VI violations “relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination,

UC Davis, Yale and Columbia are among the 60 college and universities under investigation by Education Department for antisemitism claims.

The US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 universities about potential consequences for inadequate protection of Jewish students on campus, including Columbia and Harvard.