Redi Tlhabi discusses Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and the bigger influence along with his lawyer and a Columbia College scholar
Professional-Palestine activist and Columbia College graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested this week by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for serving to lead protests on the college in opposition to the genocide in Gaza. Khalil, a authorized everlasting US resident, is being held at a detention facility in Louisiana and faces deportation. The arrest is a part of Trump’s directives round anti-Semitism on school campuses, he additionally claimed, “This the primary [arrest] of many to return.”
The transfer has despatched shockwaves all through america with critics elevating the alarm on the erosion of constitutional rights. So how far will Trump’s crackdown on free speech go?
This week on UpFront, Redi Tlhabi speaks with Mahmoud Khalil’s authorized counsel Ramzi Kassem and journalism scholar at Columbia College Tamara Turki.
