1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

Recently, U.S. permanent resident and student activist Mahmoud Khalil was abducted and illegally detained by ICE, with intent to deport him. Please do everything in your power to secure his release. Mahmoud is a student activist who has peacefully protested for Palestinian rights at Columbia University. On March 8, he was abducted from his New York apartment by DHS agents in retaliation for his constitutionally protected political speech. Khalil is currently being held in ICE custody and has reportedly already been moved out of New York State. His wife, a U.S. citizen, is eight months pregnant. The Trump administration is making moves from a well-worn fascist playbook and we need our members of Congress to start fighting back. They are trying to remove a green card holder for his political speech in support of human rights and justice. Everyone in Congress needs to immediately and publicly condemn this action, call for Mahmoud's release, and do everything in their power to protect student activists and immigrants from the reach of the Trump administration. This is an outrage and Americans won’t stand for it. Thanks.