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I want you to take a deep breath because what we're about to talk about, what we're about to

discuss isn't just another headline. It's not just the news of the day. This is a flashing red warning sign for free speech, for democracy, the direction that this

country is headed.

Are you ready?

Okay.

So, recently ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia

University.

This is not a matter of simply violating university rules.

This is a movement, an anti-war movement.

As you saw there, Khalil was one of the leaders,

one of the leaders of Colombia's protests against the war in Gaza last spring.

I want to be very clear here.

ICE didn't just attain him in some routine immigration suite.

No, they showed up at his home.

They did in the middle of the night and they handcuffed him.

And now going to strip him of his legal residency in the United States.

But it gets worse than that.

Because for days after his arrest, we didn't even know where Khalil was being held.

You heard that right.

For days, the man was missing. And so then the

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