Some protesters held signs that read "Fight Nazis not students," "Free Mahmoud free Palestine," and "You can’t deport a movement."

The New York Police Department has made multiple arrests after dozens of activists swarmed Trump Tower to protest the immigration detention of a Columbia University activist.Chaotic scenes showed NYPD officers dragging out members of the group Jewish Voice for Peace on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump, in a post Monday on his Truth Social platform, called Khalil a "Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student" and announced that his arrest was "the first arrest of many to come".