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Jena, Louisiana – 20 June 2025
1. Wide of Khalil being released from the immigration facility in Jena, Louisiana
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian activist:
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"The hundreds of men who I left behind me shouldn’t be there in the first place. The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here. Whether you are a US citizen, an immigrant, or just a person on this land doesn’t mean that you are less of a human."
3. Wide of LaSalle ICE Processing Center sign highlighting the location of Khalil’s release
4. Wide of American and other flags waving in Jena, Louisiana, symbolizing Khalil’s release from immigration detention
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian activist:
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"The message is justice will prevail. No matter what this administration may try to portray, portraying the immigrants are whether criminals or any of that trying to do all of this now, this simply is not true and just to keep the fight against this administration."
6. Wide of Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center sign in Jena, Louisiana, amid Khalil’s release news.
7. Wide of LaSalle ICE Processing Center entrance amid Khalil’s release
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian activist:
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"The moment you enter this facility, your rights leave you, leave you behind. Um, so once you enter there, you, you, you see a different reality, uh, just a different reality about this country that supposedly champions human rights and and liberty and justice, but once you cross literally that door, you see the opposite side of of of what actually happening in this country."
9. Mid of unidentified individuals accompanying Khalil to a car following his release
10. Wide of a Tesla parked on the roadside amid the release of Khalil in an immigration case
STORYLINE:
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after three months by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump’s clampdown on campus protests.
The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday. He is expected to head to New York to reunite with his U.S. citizen wife and infant son, born while Khalil was detained.
The Trump administration is seeking to deport him over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.
Khalil was released after U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz said it would be “highly, highly unusual” for the government to continue detaining a legal U.S. resident who was unlikely to flee and hadn’t been accused of any violence.
Later in the hourlong hearing, which took place by phone, the judge said the government had “clearly not met” the standards for detention.
Khalil said Friday that no one should be detained for protesting Israel’s war in Gaza. He said his time in the Jena, Louisiana, detention facility had shown him “a different reality about this country that supposedly champions human rights and justice.”
“No human is illegal,” he said when a reporter asked what message he’d like to send the public. “The message is: Justice will prevail, no mater what this administration may try to portray, portraying that immigrants are criminals.”
AP video by Sophie Bates
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