Mahmoud Khalil: Freed Columbia activist says Trump administration failed to suppress pro-Palestinian voices

After his release from more than three months in immigration detention, Mahmoud Khalil shouts: "Free Palestine!"
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"My existence is a message" to the Trump administration, he told the BBC after returning to New Jersey from a detention centre in Louisiana. "All these attempts to suppress Pro-Palestinian voices have failed now."
Mr Khalil was a prominent voice in the New York university's pro-Palestinian protests last year, and his 8 March arrest sparked demonstrations in New York and Washington DC.
The US government wants to deport him, arguing his activism is detrimental to foreign policy interests.
Speaking at the airport in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, Mr Khalil vowed to continue to advocate for Palestinian rights, and for the rights of the immigrants "who are left behind in that facility" where he was jailed in Louisiana.
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