(10 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 10 March 2025
1. Mid of people holding signs reading "Are you next, free speech matters, First they came for Mahmoud"
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Priya Patel, protester:
"I’m here because I think that the present administration just totally blowing through due process."
3. Mid of signs reading "Release Mahmoud Khalil"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Priya Patel, protester:
"It’s like sort of something that you hear about happening in, like, you know, Russia, Nazi Germany, these places that like, we’ve for so long pretended that we’re not. Here we are. Just because this person was organizing and support Palestine, I think it’s just like a gross, just blatant display of extra judicial presidential power. That’s really terrifying to me. So I feel like my husband’s an immigrant. I just feel very, very moved by this in a way that feels very personal."
5. Mid of a sign reading "Release Mahmoud Khalil, hands off our students, ICE off our campuses, shut it off for Palestine"
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Priya Patel, protester:
"I will not collaborate with ICE. I will not support the collaboration with ICE. I will also not support retaliation against Palestinian"
7. Various of people protesting with signs, UPSOUND (English) "Free free free Palestine, hands off our students now, ICE off our campus now, Columbia shame on you, you imprison students, too, what do we want, justice, when do we want it, now, shut it down, release Mahmoud Khalil now"
8. Various of people marching with signs, UPSOUND (English) "We want justice, you say how, hands off our students now, Free free free Palestine, what do we do, stand and fight back"
9. Various of NYPD police following the crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (English) name unknown, protester leader:
"We just got the news that a judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s order for deportation." ++SHOT CONTINUES++
11. Pan right, protesters cheering
STORYLINE:
Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian activist Saturday who played a prominent role in Columbia University’s protests against Israel, a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s pledge to detain and deport student activists.
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until this past December, was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told The Associated Press.
Khalil’s arrest is the first publicly known deportation effort under Trump’s promised crackdown on students who joined protests against the war in Gaza that swept college campuses last spring. The administration has claimed participants forfeited their rights to remain in the country by supporting Hamas.
Khalil’s detention drew outrage from civil rights groups and free speech advocates, who accused the administration of using its immigration enforcement powers to squelch criticism of Israel.
His lawyers filed a lawsuit challenging his detention. A federal judge in New York City ordered that Khalil not be deported while the court considered his case. A hearing was scheduled for Wednesday.
President Donald Trump warned Monday that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administration cracks down on campus demonstrations against Israel and the war in Gaza.
On Monday afternoon, a protest took place outside a federal office building in Manhattan.
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