"Please release Mahmoud now," said his wife, who was not named by the lawyer when asked by Newsweek nor in legal papers filed Sunday in challenge of Khalil's detention. Syrian-bor

On Saturday night, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) followed through on Trump's threat, detaining Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist at New York City's Columbia University,

Weeks of Trump administration attacks on both speech and immigrant rights have come to a head this week with the ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident and Palestinian graduate of Columbia University who had been involved in organizing campus protests.