In Russia, Vladimir Putin will throw protestors against the war in Ukraine in prison. The Chinese Communist Party will send dissidents to reeducation camps. It makes you thankful we live in the U.S.A., where we proudly celebrate our right to free speech, including the right to tell the government to go to hell. Right?
Except on March 9, the Trump administration arrested and briefly disappeared Mahmoud Khalil because they disapprove of his protests against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza. He was transferred to a remote, privately run Louisiana detention facility in the middle of the night and remains locked up. If you cut through the loose accusations, the White House justification for detaining and seeking to deport a green card holder, whose U.S. citizen wife is expecting their baby in a month, is that the administration disapproves of his views on Middle East politics.
