Previously Detained Columbia Graduate Now Seeks Big Payday From Trump Admin

A college graduate student accused of pro-Hamas activism is seeking millions from the Trump administration weeks after being released from an immigration detention center.

Mahmoud Khalil — a Syrian-born Palestinian activist who became the face of anti-Israel demonstrations that rocked Columbia University’s campus throughout 2024 — is suing the Trump administration for $20 million for his arrest and months-long detention by federal immigration authorities, according to the Associated Press (AP). Khalil’s lawyers filed his claim Thursday, alleging he was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and wrongly labeled as an anti-semite as the Trump administration sought to remove him from the country...