DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protester</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> files $20M claim against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration</p><p>By JAKE OFFENHARTZ<br>Updated 3:47 PM EDT, July 10, 2025</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — "On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York.</p><p>"For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless.</p><p>" 'I cannot describe the pain of that night,' Khalil said finally, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms. 'This is something I will never forgive.'</p><p>"Now, weeks after regaining his freedom, Khalil is seeking restitution. On Thursday, his lawyers filed a claim for $20 million in damages against the Trump administration, alleging Khalil was <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalselyImprisoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalselyImprisoned</span></a>, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemite</span></a> as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests. </p><p>"The filing — a precursor to a lawsuit under the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FederalTortClaimsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalTortClaimsAct</span></a> — names the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity</span></a>, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USStateDepartment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USStateDepartment</span></a>.</p><p>"It comes as the deportation case against Khalil, a 30-year-old recent graduate student at Columbia University, continues to wind its way through the immigration court system."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-ice-release-trump-columbia-protests-570f7af32010c16b1a00dd7e78f4c687" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/mahmoud-kha</span><span class="invisible">lil-ice-release-trump-columbia-protests-570f7af32010c16b1a00dd7e78f4c687</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HomelandInsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomelandInsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEKidnapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEKidnapping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICERaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICERaids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gestapo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistAuthoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistAuthoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpeakUpAgainstGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpeakUpAgainstGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a></p>