If there is a positive to Trumps immigration plan, it is that this plan is creating millionaires. Mahmoud Khalil looks like he will be the first one.
Palestinian Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration for ICE detention
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for 104 days has filed a complaint against the administration of President Donald Trump for $20 million.
"It was a very, very dehumanizing experience, for someone who was not accused of any crime, whatsoever," Khalil told CNN. He is a green card holder who had no formal criminal or civil charges against him.
His administrative complaint, which is a precursor to a federal lawsuit, alleges that he was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an anti-Semite. The U.S. government tried to deport him because of his leadership of campus protests at Columbia University.
His arrest felt like a kidnapping, he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. He was on his way home from dinner with his wife Noor Abdalla, who was pregnant at the time. Agents followed him into the lobby of his apartment building, and they threatened his wife with arrest if she didn't separate from him, he said. The ICE agents did not have a warrant for the arrest.
The government held Khalil, 30, in an ICE facility in Louisiana, alleging he supports Hamas. The administration hasn't shown any evidence of this, and Khalil's legal team has rejected it.
This is just the beginning. People are going to get rich