Mahmoud Khalil's Case: "The Goal Is to Silence Dissent"

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

“What the Trump administration is trying to do to Mr. Khalil is a blueprint, and if they are able to get away with it, then they will replicate it.”

On March 8th, Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was taken by immigration agents to a detention facility in Louisiana—without charges. He was taken because of his pro-Palestine activism on campus. Khalil is a legal permanent resident of the United States with a valid green card. Maria Hinojosa talks with his lawyer about the case and the chilling implications for free speech and the right to due process in the U.S. today.

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0:00.0	What? You're going to be under arrest.
0:09.1	Turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around.
0:12.3	Okay, let's not.
0:14.1	Okay, he's not resisting.
0:15.5	He's giving me his phone.
0:16.8	Okay.
0:17.2	On March 8th of this year, Homeland Security agents, dressed in plain clothes, went to the home of Columbia University Graduate School student and Palestinian activist Mahmur Khalil.
0:29.9	They handcuffed him in the lobby of the Columbia-owned apartment building where he lives.
0:35.2	They put him into an unmarked car and took him into immigration custody.
0:40.8	The scene was captured by Mahmoud's wife, Nur Abdala, who is eight months pregnant. She followed the
0:47.5	agents asking for their names while she had a lawyer on the phone.
0:52.3	Let me ask.
0:57.1	Can we get a name, please?
0:58.5	Can we get your name?
0:59.8	Over there.
1:01.1	We don't give our name. I'm sorry?
1:01.7	Yeah, that's right.
1:02.3	We'll be taking immigration custody at 26 federal.
1:05.2	I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
1:06.9	We'll be taken to immigration custody at 26 federal plaza.
1:10.1	Noor is a U.S. citizen watching her husband get taken out of nowhere and disappeared.
1:19.6	Mahmoud himself is a U.S. permanent resident, which means he has a valid green card.
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