This is such an excellent, excellent program from yesterday featuring in part the strong and courageous voice of Mohsen Mahdawi!! Such a bright light. And the struggle goes on. May he inspire us all! — Molly
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Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi has been released on bail by a Vermont judge after more than two weeks in U.S. immigration custody. “I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” he told supporters as he left a Vermont courthouse. Despite being a legal permanent resident, Mahdawi was arrested by immigration enforcement last month at what he was told would be a citizenship interview, and accused by the State Department of posing a threat to national security over his pro-Palestine campus activism. We get an update from Shezza Abboushi Dallal, part of Mahdawi’s legal team, who says his release was facilitated by the prior blocking of his transfer to a jurisdiction more favorable to the Trump administration. Mahdawi will now be able to attend his graduation from Columbia University this month.
Please go here for the original program and full transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/1/mohsen_mahdawi_released_from_ice_detention
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