Mahmoud Khalil, a political prisoner in Louisiana, highlights the injustices faced by detainees within U.S. immigration facilities. He recounts his arrest by DHS agents, which occurred without warrant, illustrating the severity of immigration policies that dehumanize individuals like the Senegalese man and the young deportee he encountered. His activism for Palestinian rights catalyzed his arrest, exposing a troubling intersection of free speech and immigration enforcement. Khalil underscores the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, calling for persistent advocacy and moral responsibility towards the affected families in conflict zones.
Justice escapes the contours of this nation's immigration facilities. It isn't the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, nor the 21-year-old detainee I met who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.
DHS agents refused to provide a warrant, accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. They threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side.
My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza.
With January's ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs.
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