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DAY 52

It's all about two words: Mahmoud Khalil

Brian J Karem Mar 14

NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - Two days before U.S. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist asked his wife if she knew what to do if immigration agents came to their door.

Noor Abdalla, Khalil's wife of more than two years, said she was confused. As a legal permanent resident of the U.S., surely Khalil did not have to worry about that, she recalls telling him.

"I didn't take him seriously. Clearly I was naive," Abdalla, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, told Reuters in her first media interview.

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This is the clearest demonstration yet that Donald Trump and his jackboots don’t give a damn about your free speech, the first amendment or anything or anyone that doesn’t give in to the bully.

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