Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers demand his immediate release as Trump misses key deadline
The 30-year-old grad student, a legal permanent resident, has been detained in Jena, Louisiana, since March 9, a day after agents from DHS took him into custody at his Columbia-owned apartment.
MUSLIM PROTESTERS pray outside Columbia University’s main campus in March as they denounce the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City. The writer asks: Should Khalil, a radical leader, be protected because of ‘free speech?’(photo credit: David Dee Delgado/Reuters)ByMOLLY CRANE-NEWMAN, CAYLA BAMBERGER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/TNS