Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil filed a lawsuit Tuesday against senior Trump administration officials and three anti-Palestinian organizations for conspiring to deprive him of his constitutional rights. Khalil was a graduate student at Columbia University when he was arrested last year and detained for months. He missed the birth of his son, Deen, while in detention. Mahmoud Khalil spoke Tuesday outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan.

Mahmoud Khalil: “We watched a broken immigration system weaponized against political speech. We watched free expression and academic freedom treated as obstacles rather than principles worth defending. And their message, their message was unmistakable: If your speech challenges those in power or exposes uncomfortable truths about Palestine, you can be singled out, punished and made an example, and made into a warning for everyone else.”

We’ll speak with Mahmoud Khalil later in the broadcast.