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Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian rights advocate, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court alleging a coordinated conspiracy between senior administration officials and three private organizations to target and deport him for his advocacy. Khalil was a former Columbia University graduate student who became the public face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism.
The 131-page complaint, filed under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, names among many defendants Senior Presidential Advisor Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and State Department official John Armstrong as defendants, along with the Heritage Foundation and two online surveillance groups, Canary Mission and Betar, and individual leaders of each organization among others.
According to the complaint, the Heritage Foundation published Project Esther in October 2024. This project was a plan to identify and target non-citizen students and scholars who were advocating for Palestinian rights for arrest and deportation through a ‘public-private partnership’ with a ‘willing Administration’ in the White House. Canary Mission and Betar would select the targets. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official later testified in separate federal proceedings that roughly 75 percent of the names his agency investigated came from Canary Mission.
Khalil, a lawful permanent resident married to a US citizen, was arrested by ICE agents on March 8, 2025. He spent 104 days in immigration detention in Louisiana, missing the birth of his first child. His lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages and an injunction barring the defendants from continuing to pursue his removal.
“This case is about far more than what was done to me,” Khalil said in a press release on Tuesday. “It’s about a coordinated, ongoing campaign to punish, silence, and intimidate anyone who dares to speak out for Palestinian liberation.”
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The 131-page complaint, filed under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, names among many defendants Senior Presidential Advisor Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and State Department official John Armstrong as defendants, along with the Heritage Foundation and two online surveillance groups, Canary Mission and Betar, and individual leaders of each organization among others.
According to the complaint, the Heritage Foundation published Project Esther in October 2024. This project was a plan to identify and target non-citizen students and scholars who were advocating for Palestinian rights for arrest and deportation through a ‘public-private partnership’ with a ‘willing Administration’ in the White House. Canary Mission and Betar would select the targets. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official later testified in separate federal proceedings that roughly 75 percent of the names his agency investigated came from Canary Mission.
Khalil, a lawful permanent resident married to a US citizen, was arrested by ICE agents on March 8, 2025. He spent 104 days in immigration detention in Louisiana, missing the birth of his first child. His lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages and an injunction barring the defendants from continuing to pursue his removal.
“This case is about far more than what was done to me,” Khalil said in a press release on Tuesday. “It’s about a coordinated, ongoing campaign to punish, silence, and intimidate anyone who dares to speak out for Palestinian liberation.”
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