A legal battle over an arrested Palestinian activist and Columbia University student that has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration policy will play out in federal court, with the U.

A Manhattan federal court will hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student that the Trump Administration is trying to deport over his participation in pro-Palestinian protests at the school.

Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who seized building during pro-Palestinian protest