A hearing will be held on Tuesday for detained Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and seven other students who are attempting to block the university from sharing private disciplinary records with a GOP-led House committee.

Mahmoud Khalil is currently being held in an immigration detention facility by the Trump administration. But a year ago, he skipped out on the first encampment at Columbia, which would launch a

The U.S. government has alleged that Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application.