In Fox News Op-Ed, Mahmoud Khalil Urges Americans To Defend The First Amendment
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A year after ICE detained him over his pro-Palestinian activism, Khalil is warning Americans that their rights could be Trump's next target.
About a year after federal immigration agents first abducted Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil and detained him without charge, the pro-Palestinian activist is now urging Americans across the political spectrum to defend the First Amendment against the Trump administration’s efforts to quash it.
Khalil wrote an opinion piece on Wednesday for Fox News, detailing how he, as a green card holder, was taken from his then-pregnant wife in March 2025 because of his role organizing nonviolent campus protests for Palestine — in other words, exercising his First Amendment rights.
“Throughout my 104 days in federal detention, during which I missed the birth of my first child, I considered myself a political prisoner,” he wrote. “The government had deprived me of my liberty, not because I had broken any laws, but because it didn’t like what I had to say.”
Khalil was eventually released and has previously described the inhumane conditions he and other immigrants had to endure while detained. But the Trump administration still continues to fight Khalil in court to get him — and other pro-Palestinian activists like Leqaa Kordia — deported.
“The Supreme Court recognized eighty years ago that the First Amendment protects all of us in the United States — citizens and noncitizens alike — from government persecution for our beliefs,” he wrote.
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