Nomia IqbalBBC NewsReporting fromNewark, New JerseyReutersKhalil, seen with his wife on SaturdayColumbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has said the Trump administration failed to suppress pro-Palestinian voices, following his release from more than three months in immigration detention.”My existence is a message” to the Trump administration, he told the BBC after returning to New Jersey from a detention centre in Louisiana. “All these attempts to suppress Pro-Palestinian voices have failed now.”Mr Khalil was a prominent voice in the New York university’s pro-Palestinian protests last year, and his 8 March arrest sparked demonstrations in New York and Washington DC.The US government wants to deport him, arguing his activism is detrimental to foreign policy interests.
Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil says Trump administration has failed
