Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention

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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after 104 days by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests. (Video courtesy of Associated Press)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/06/21/title  Join this channel to get access to perks:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5664f6TkaeHgwBly50DWZQ/join   Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin   Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin  Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin  Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin   #ManilaBulletinOnline  #ManilaBulletin  #LatestNews

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00:00The hundreds of men who I left behind me shouldn't be there in the first place.

00:15The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here.

00:20Whether you are a US citizen, an immigrant, or just a person on this land,

00:26doesn't mean that you are less of a human.

00:29The message is justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try to portray,

00:50portraying that immigrants are, whether criminals or any of that, trying to do all of this now.

00:57And this simply is not true, and just to keep the fight against this administration.

01:07The moment you enter this facility, your rights leave you behind.

01:13So once you enter there, you see a different reality.

01:18Just a different reality about this country that supposedly champions human rights and liberty and justice.

01:28But once you cross literally that door, you see the opposite side of what actually happening on this country.

01:43When people come in to this country, they will become a big part of this country.

01:45And they will be able to address that.

01:47So the other country is very important to the place that they try to play,

01:49I think what they do in the country.

01:50Quoteen this country.

01:51So if they are not even the country, they will be able to do it,

01:52and they will be able to affect the country.

01:53And the country is a big part to enlighten the country.

01:54And the United States to take a different moment.

01:55You see that I can do them, but the country is not only in my country.

01:57People who are not being able to do it all right.

01:59There is a lot of people who are not being able to do it.

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