Mahmoud Khalil: ‘The Trump administration wanted to make an example out of me’ | BBC News

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by US immigration agents on 8 March. The US government wanted to deport him, arguing his activism was detrimental to its foreign policy interests. But in late June, after spending more than 100 days in immigration detention, a federal judge ruled that Mr Khalil was not a flight risk or threat to his community and could be released. Mahmoud Khalil sat down with our North America correspondent Nomia Iqbal.