India, June 22 -- Former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil has been released from a US immigration detention after 104 days over pro-Palestinian protests across US campuses.

Khalil, a prominent voice in the pro-Palestinian protests last year, became a symbol of US President Donald Trump's clampdown after student protests.

The 30-year-old international affairs student, who was released from a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday, is expected to head to New York to reunite with his wife and infant son, born while he was in detention, Associated Press reported.

The US authorities had detained Khalil at his university residence on March 8.

The arrest appeared to be part of the Trump administration's pledge to deport internatio...