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MAHMOUD KHALIL’S WIFE SPEAKS OUT ON HIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ARREST  
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March 12, 2025
Progressive Hub
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_ The following is a press statement from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife.
Khalil was unconstitutionally arrested by ICE agents over the weekend.
"I am pleading with the world to continue to speak up against his
unjust and horrific detention ....." _

Protesters demonstrate in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud
Khalil at Washington Square Park, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in New
York., AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura // Progressive Hub

 

My husband, Mahmoud Khalil, is my rock. He is my home and he is my
happy place. I am currently 8 months pregnant, and I could not imagine
a better father for my child. We’ve been excitedly preparing to
welcome our baby, and now Mahmoud has been ripped away from me for no
reason at all.

I am pleading with the world to continue to speak up against his
unjust and horrific detention by the Trump administration.

This last week has been a nightmare: Six days ago, an intense and
targeted doxxing campaign against Mahmoud began. Anti-Palestinian
organizations were spreading false claims about my husband that were
simply not based in reality. They were making threats against Mahmoud
and he was so concerned about his safety that he emailed Columbia
University on March 7th. In his email, he begged the university for
legal support, “I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or
a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urgently need legal
support and I urge you to intervene,” he said in his email.

Columbia University never responded to that email.

Instead, on March 8th, at around 8:30 pm, as we were returning home
from an Iftar dinner, an ICE officer followed us into our building and
asked, “Are you Mahmoud Khalil?”

Mahmoud stated, “Yes.”

The officer then proceeded to say, “We are with the police, you have
to come with us.”

The officer told Mahmoud to give me the apartment keys and that I
could go upstairs. When I refused, afraid to leave my husband, the
officer stated, “I will arrest you too.”

The officers later barricaded Mahmoud from me. We were not shown any
warrant and the ICE officers hung up the phone on our lawyer. When my
husband attempted to give me his phone so I could speak with our
lawyer, the officers got increasingly aggressive, despite Mahmoud
being fully cooperative.

Everyone who knows Mahmoud knows him to be level-headed even in the
most stressful situations. And even in this terrifying situation, he
was calm.

Within minutes, they had handcuffed Mahmoud, took him out into the
street and forced him into an unmarked car. Watching this play out in
front of me was traumatizing: It felt like a scene from a movie I
never signed up to watch.

I was born and raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria,
carrying their stories of the oppressive regime there that made life
unlivable. They believed living in the US would bring a sense of
safety and stability. But here I am, 40 years after my parents
immigrated here, and just weeks before I’m due to give birth to our
first child, and I feel more unsafe and unstable than I have in my
entire life.

US immigration ripped my soul from me when they handcuffed my husband
and forced him into an unmarked vehicle. Instead of putting together
our nursery and washing baby clothes in anticipation of our first
child, I am left sitting in our apartment, wondering when Mahmoud will
get a chance to call me from a detention center.

I demand the US government release him, reinstate his Green Card, and
bring him home.

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