Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers claim Nazis enjoy more rights than...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Khalil - a 30-year-old green card-holding Palestinian born in Syria - was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his Columbia-funded Manhattan apartment on March 8 following a crackdown by the Trump administration on anti-Israel demonstrators at university campuses.
46% : His lawyers have been fighting the arrest both in immigration court and in New Jersey federal court, where a habeas corpus petition was filed for his release on the grounds that the seizure violated the First Amendment right to free speech, since the government allegedly targeted him for his anti-Israel activities. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security invoked an obscure law that allows a Secretary of State to deport noncitizens who potentially threaten US foreign policy.

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