Mahmoud Khalil is a lawful permanent resident of the United States. But that has not stopped Donald Trump’s administration from threatening to remove him from the country, after federal law enforcement agents arrested him in New York and sent him to a detention facility in Louisiana, raising critical questions about First Amendment protections for green card holders.
Khalil, who was born in Syria, is a Palestinian graduate of Columbia University, and a green card holder married to a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant.
