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On Point | Podcast

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil and how the Trump administration's actions threaten free speech

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Trump White House is using Department of Homeland Security intelligence to identify pro-Palestinian college protestors. Courts have ruled that campus protests are protected by the First Amendment. But as the Trump administration seeks to punish speech it does not like, whose first amendment rights are next?

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This is on point. I'm Meghacharabardi.

0:55.8

On March 8th, ICE agents were waiting in the foyer of a Columbia University student housing complex.

1:02.1

They were waiting for Mahmoud Khalil and his wife to return from dinner.

1:06.9

When they did, ICE agents arrested Khalil on the spot and have been holding him in a Louisiana

1:12.2

detention facility ever since. Mahoud Khalil is a green card holder. He is a legal permanent

1:18.5

resident of the United States. He was also one of the leaders of the student pro-Palestinian

1:24.0

protests that paralyzed Columbia University last year.

1:28.6

Now, most protests are a protective form of speech in the United States.

1:33.7

The Trump administration arrested Khalil for what it says are his, quote,

1:38.1

anti-Semitic and, quote, anti-American actions.

1:42.3

They seek to deport him.

1:47.0

And to do so, the White House is invoking a little used clause in the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act. For those of you who follow immigration

1:53.9

issues closely, this is not the 1965 Immigration Act that effectively abolished immigration

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