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A prominent pro-Palestine Columbia University graduate has sued US President Donald Trump's administration for $20 million over his arrest and detention by immigration agents.
Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders of pro-Palestinian protests on American campuses, was in custody following his arrest in March.
Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and a Palestinian activist who helped organize campus protests against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza across the US last year, was arrested on March 8 in New York. He had since been held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana.
Khalil is also a legal permanent US resident and previously served as a lead negotiator for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, CUAD.
He was freed from a federal immigration detention center in Louisiana last month, hours after a judge ordered his release on bail.
The legal group backing Khalil said in a statement that the Trump administration carried out its illegal plan to arrest, detain, and deport Khalil in a manner calculated to terrorize him and his family.
"The administration carried out its illegal plan to arrest, detain, and deport Mr. Khalil 'in a manner calculated to terrorize him and his family,' the claim says," according to the Center for Constitutional Rights which is backing Khalil...
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