Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil
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The Columbia graduate student was supposed to attend this graduation celebration. Instead Khalil is in immigration detention, caught up in Trump’s crackdown on foreign students.
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The Forward on MSNAt Columbia’s commencement, free speech and an absent graduate loom largeMohsen Mahdawi, another pro-Palestinian student who had been detained, walked across the stage to a standing ovation from the crowd.
The judge in the case, Michael E. Farbiarz, has yet to weigh in fully on the issues of free speech and due process as Mr. Khalil passes the weeks in Jena, La.
Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team on Monday released new footage of the minutes leading up to his arrest that they say contradicts the government’s argument that he was a flight risk.
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