Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prevented detained Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil from holding his newborn son during a family visit, according to a report published by CBS News citing his legal team.
Khalil, 30, met his month-old baby for the first time behind a glass partition at a detention center in Louisiana, where he has been held since March. His wife, Noor Abdalla, traveled from New York for the visit, hoping for a contact meeting.
However, ICE officials and the private contractor operating the facility denied the family’s request for physical contact, citing the detention center’s no-contact visitation policy and vague “security concerns,” Khalil’s lawyers said.
ICE has nothing on this guy. What? He said some things opposing the killing and starvation of average people in Gaza, making the conservatives in power and their AIPAC financiers look bad? That’s not how the constitution works.