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Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration
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Weeks after his release from federal immigration detention, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is filing a claim against the Trump administration, seeking $20 million in damages for the emotional distress he suffered. - photo by AP video: Joseph B. Frederick
NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York. For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless. “I cannot describe the pain of that night,” Khalil said finally, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms.