“I didn’t take him seriously,” Mahmoud Khalil’s pregnant wife, Noor Abdalla, told Reuters on Wednesday. “Clearly I was naive.”

Her husband — who was a driving force behind many of the anti-Israel protests, building takeovers and encampments that plagued Columbia for more than a year — is currently in ICE custody after the feds grabbed him at his university-owned apartment building Saturday.

Abdalla, a US citizen, was in a Manhattan court earlier Wednesday as her husband’s lawyers fought to block the Trump administration’s push to deport him.

With Post wires

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