Friend,

Mahmoud Khalil was just returning from breaking his Ramadan fast with his
wife when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents abducted him
from his apartment.(1)

Mahmoud is a green card holder and permanent U.S. resident, but the MAGA
regime is attempting to deport him -- for exercising his First Amendment
rights.

Last year, as a graduate student at Columbia University, Mahmoud spoke out
publicly against the Israeli siege of Gaza, and Donald Trump has ordered
his residency be revoked and he be deported.(2)

[ [link removed] ]Courage California has joined a host of civil rights advocates to
demand that Mahmoud Khalil be released. Will you join the call?

[ [link removed] ]SIGN NOW

This ICE arrest is a chilling demonstration of just how far the Trump
administration will go to control free speech.

Mahmoud hasn’t been charged with a crime at all. But he was still ripped
from his wife -- who is eight months pregnant -- and flown to Louisiana to
be detained for deportation.(3)

And Trump says this arrest will be “the first of many to come.”(4)

Mahmoud’s illegal ICE arrest flies in the face of one of the basic
principles of our democracy -- the right to speak against our government.
We cannot let this deportation happen.

[ [link removed] ]Sign now to tell the Department of Justice to immediately release
Mahmoud Khalil!

Thank you for being in the fight!

–Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Cecilia, Jen, and Lindsay (the
Courage team)

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