Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump admin, says he'd also accept apology for ICE detention

On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the predawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the boy’s birth in New York.

For a moment, Khalil, the outspoken Palestinian activist, found himself uncharacteristically speechless.

“I cannot describe the pain of that night,” Khalil told The Associated Press, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms. “This is something I will never forgive.”