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Federal agents are seen how they arrested the Palestinian Pro-Terror activist Mahmoud Khalil in a newly published video

New York (AP) – A video published on Friday shows the moment when the Federal Immigration Agents Mahmoud Khalil arrested a prominent Palestinian activist and pronounced student at Columbia University, whose detention triggered protest waves throughout the country.




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The clip begins with at least three immigration agents who confront the lobby of its residential building on Saturday evening in the lobby of its residential building near the Columbia campus. The agents inform him that he is “arrested” and repeatedly command him to turn around and “stop resisting”.
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“This is not necessary,” Khalil replies calmly when you put it in handcuffs. “I'm going with you. No worries.”

When his wife Noor Abdalla assures in protest, Khalil assures her that he will be fine and instructs her to call his lawyer, who is student in a disciplinary case.

Abdalla, an American citizen who is eighth month pregnant, then asks the immigration agents to identify. “We don't give our names,” you replied, as Khalil is pushed out of the frame.

The video was published by Khalil's lawyers on the same day when the Ministry of Justice announced whether the university hided “illegal foreigners” on their campus.

In a statement that accompanied the video, Abdalla described the interaction as “the most terrible moment of my life”. She said the arrest occurred when the couple returned home from an IFTAR celebration to their apartment, which belongs to the Columbia University.

“It felt like a kidnapping because it was: officers in PlainClothes – who refused to show us an arrest warrant, speak to our lawyer or even tell us her names – forced my husband to take a car and took him away from me,” she continued. “They threatened to take me, even though we were calm and fully cooperative.”

President Donald Trump has warned that the attempted deportation of Khalil will be the “first of many” against those who join protests against Israel's actions during the war in Gaza.

Lawyers of the Ministry of Justice say in court files that Kahlil, a legal US resident without criminal history, was arrested according to a law that allowed Foreign Minister Marco Rubio to remove someone from the country if he has reasonable reasons for the conviction that their presence or activities would potentially have serious negative foreign policy consequences.

On Thursday, Khalil's lawyers submitted new court documents in which he was described, as he was hurried from New York to Louisiana last weekend, in a way that left the pronounced students of Columbia University, the feeling of being kidnapped.

The experience reminded of Khalil when he left Syria shortly after the forced disappearance of his friends at a time of arbitrary detention in 2013, the lawyers wrote.

According to the lawsuit, Khalil repeatedly asked to speak to a lawyer after being caught by federal agents. After being brought to the FBI headquarters in Lower Manhattan, Khalil saw an agent who approached another agent and said: “The white house requested an update,” wrote the lawyers.

At some point in the early Sunday, Khalil was in the Elizabeth Detension Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, with handcuffs and tied up, a privately managed facility in which he spent the night in a cold waiting room for processing, the request for a blanket, it says in the lawsuit.

When he reached the front of the line for processing, he was informed that his processing was transported by the immigration authorities, according to the lawsuit.

In a van, Khalil found that one of the agents received a text message that states that Khalil should not use his phone, the lawsuit said.

On Sunday at 2:45 p.m. he was held on a flight from American Airlines from Kennedy International Airport to Dallas, where he organized a second flight to Alexandria, Louisiana. He arrived at 1 a.m. on Monday and a police car took him to the prison in Louisiana in Jena, Louisiana.

In the facility, he is now worried about his pregnant woman and is “also very concerned about missing the birth of his first child,” says the lawsuit.

In April, Khalil was supposed to start a job and receive health performance, which the couple counted to cover the costs related to the birth and care of the child, added.

“For Mr. Khalil, it is very important to continue his protected political speech and protest for the rights of the Palestinians in Germany and abroad,” said the lawsuit and stated that Khalil was planning to speak of a documentary in a panel at the upcoming premiere in Copenhagen, Denmark, in which he was carried out in which he was carried out.

The submission to the late Thursday in the Manhattan Federal Court was the result of the order of a federal judge that they can finally speak privately to Khalil.

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