From CNN, I'm Afamadikai, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, March 13th.

New York police arrested nearly 100 people gathered inside the lobby at Trump Tower in Manhattan today

to protest a Palestinian activist's arrest.

Mahmoud Khalil is being held by immigration officials over his involvement with pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University last spring.

His green card was revoked and he could be deported.

Here's CNN's Omar Jimenez.

The protesters entered the building, wearing coats and jackets, and then once inside, they opened their shirts to reveal the red shirts.

They were there representing Jewish voice for peace.

Protesting in support of Mahmoud Khalil, who, as you mentioned, was the now former student at Columbia University,

who helped lead the many protests we saw on that campus over the course of last year.

We got on scene just as they were being

let out of Trump Tower, zip tied in the back and loaded onto buses where they were then taken to

central booking, where they faced some minor charges at this point. But as we understand, they were

initially asked to leave. They did not. Some left voluntarily. Others did not. Those were the

folks that were let out primarily in those zip ties.

President Donald Trump is appealing to the Supreme Court to let him end birthright citizenship.

His executive order earlier this year sparked nationwide injunctions from lower courts to block the controversial policy.

In a series of emergency appeals,

the Trump administration argued that lower courts had gone too far

and wants SCOTUS to limit the impact of those orders.

This would allow the Trump administration

to enforce this order against people not covered

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