Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil has walked out of an immigration detention center in rural Louisiana where he was locked up for more than three months for his campus activism against Israel’s war in Gaza.
A federal judge ordered his release hours earlier on Friday and rebuked President Donald Trump’s administration for its “highly, highly unusual” decision to hold him there, with no evidence Khalil committed any crime, and after the judge’s determination that his detention and threat of removal from the country over First Amendment-protected speech is unconstitutional.
