Hard to overstate significance of this release. President of the United States brought the full weight of state power on this one young man and his wife and infant child. But he held strong, never sacrificed his principles, and is now at liberty. A lesson for us all.
Mahmoud Khalil is finally free 104 days after being abducted by ICE from his home in New York. The first thing he will do, he says, is “hug his wife and child,” whose birth he was forced to miss from behind bars.