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Mahmoud Khalil, Biding Time in Jena | Shayoni Mitra
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Mahmoud Khalil, Biding Time in Jena | Shayoni Mitra

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He sat silent for most of the two-hour hearing, in standard-issue navy shirt, navy trousers, and rubber slippers, thumbing a short string of beads, asking to speak on the record at the very end, after an immigration judge had already ruled him removable “to Syria or Algeria or somewhere.” Then Mahmoud Khalil delivered a short statement making forcefully the following points: that there had been neither due process rights nor fundamental fairness in his case, that he was sent one thousand miles away from his family as a specific target of the Trump Administration, and that his case was being handled with greater urgency than the hundreds of others awaiting a hearing at the same facility.…

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