Protesters gathered Saturday outside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington, DC to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil -- a green card holder and recent Columbia University graduate who helped organize campus protests last year. Demonstrators later took to the stre»»»

By Joel Mathis, The Week US The Trump administration moved this week to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate of Palestinian heritage who once led campus protests against “Israel's” war in Gaza. Critics say Khalil's arrest is a threat to the First Amendment and to the rights »»»

In a presentation he delivered in 1860, shortly before the Civil War began, in which he addressed the subject of freedom of expression at an Abolitionist meeting, African American author, reformer and statesman Fredrick Douglass, said: "No right was deemed by the Founding Fathers more sacred than t»»»

Columbia University student’s lawyers ask judge to order his return to New York from immigration detention in Louisiana. Hundreds of people have rallied outside a New York City courtroom to demand the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, whose arrest over the weekend sparked condemnation»»»