One week ago today, U.S. legal permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil was abducted from his home in New York City and sent more than 1,300 miles away to an ICE detention facility in Louisiana by plainclothes immigration agents for exercising his First Amendment right to protest.
It’s a frightening criminalization of our right to dissent.
Mahmoud’s lawyers released statements from his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, describing what happened. They were returning from an Iftar dinner, breaking the day’s fast during this holy month of Ramadan. As they were entering their university-owned apartment, ICE agents pushed inside.
“We were not shown any warrant and the ICE officers hung up the phone on our lawyer. Within minutes, they had handcuffed Mahmoud, took him out into the street and forced him into an unmarked car. Watching this play out in front of me was traumatizing.”
“Instead of putting together our nursery and washing baby clothes in anticipation of our first child, I am left sitting in our apartment, wondering when Mahmoud will get a chance to call me from a detention center. I demand the U.S. government release him, reinstate his green card, and bring him home.”
This is straight out of the fascist playbook, and it’s an illegal assault on our constitutional rights. Protesting genocide is not a crime.
Will you lift up Mahmoud’s wife’s demands by adding your name now?
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/act3
Together we’re fighting back against illegal attacks on political speech.
In solidarity,
Rashida Tlaib
Connect the Dots 101 
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