Adrian Florido
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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Well, Khalil A. was one of the Palestinian students who last year negotiated on behalf. of the campus protesters who were pressing Colombia to divest from Israel over the Gaza war. He was outspoken, very involved. He recently graduated.
I spoke with his lawyer and she told me that on Saturday night, Khalil and his wife were arriving at their university apartment and that ICE agents were in the lobby. They told Khalil his student visa had been cancelled. But Khalil is not on a visa. He is a legal permanent resident. When his wife went to get his green card out of the apartment, agents said that it had been revoked. Revoked.
Did they give a reason? Well, his lawyer, Amy Greer, says she spoke with one of the agents on the phone during the arrest, and he didn't give her a reason.
Greer said that she was shocked the government had declared his green card revoked without due process.
Instead, agents drove Khalil to a detention center, she said, while his pregnant wife, a U.S. citizen, stayed behind. Okay, now what are you learning about what's behind all this, possibly? Well, I got a statement last night from DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin. She said Khalil had been arrested in support of a recent executive order that President Trump signed on anti-Semitism.
She said Khalil had, quote, led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. Separately, in a post on X, Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked to a news story about Khalil's arrest. and wrote that the administration would be revoking the visas or green cards of Hamas supporters so they can be deported.
Can you give us just maybe a little more context about the government's motives here? Well, conservative lawmakers have really tried to label pro-Palestinian protesters as pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist, or anti-Semitic. In late January, President Trump signed an executive order that he said would be used to go after students who participated in, in his words, the pro-jihadist protests.
It directed federal agencies to work toward deporting international students who participated. The order cited federal law that allows deporting foreign nationals who express support for terrorism. Students have always rejected, A, the claim that their protests were pro-terrorist or that they supported Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel. They say the protests were for peace in Gaza.
Well, student activists are denouncing it as a chilling attempt to use deportation to stifle free speech and to repress pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israel. Khalil's attorney, Amy Greer, told me that she's angry the government was attempting to tar Khalil as anything other than the kind and loving person that he is.
She has a legal team that is trying to find out where he's being held and that plans to defend him and to ensure that he gets due process.
Thank you, Abe.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and partner agencies have reported raids to pick up hundreds of immigrants in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, San Diego, Miami and many other cities. ICE says it's targeting potentially dangerous criminal aliens. Its press releases highlight arrests of people convicted or wanted for crimes like extortion, homicide, domestic violence and narcotics violations.
But advocates say it's also getting people who pose no threat. In Atlanta, activists reported immigrants with pending asylum claims were rounded up. In Puerto Rico, the ACLU said ICE had detained people with legal status and no criminal history. Advocates have filed a raft of lawsuits to try to slow the deportation dragnet. Adrian Fledivo, NPR News, Los Angeles.
Well, things are looking better. Firefighters are gradually containing the Eaton Fire in northeast L.A. and the Palisades Fire on the west side. Each of those fires destroyed thousands of homes, as you said. They are now burning mostly in the unpopulated hills, but they are still spreading. There were new evacuation orders over the weekend in neighborhoods that the fires were approaching.
The big concern now is that winds are, as you said, about to pick up again. There could be gusts as high as 70 miles per hour in some areas. This is L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Maroney.
LA City Fire Chief Kristen Crowley pleaded with residents to stay alert and to stay informed.
The National Weather Service has warned that critical fire weather conditions will last through Wednesday.
Well, they're now saying that they are staffed and equipped to handle this. Thousands of firefighters have come in from other states, from Mexico and from Canada, and are working the fire lines. The governor of California called up a thousand more National Guard troops to help. Dozens of planes and choppers have been dropping water and flame retardant pretty much around the clock.
Of course, as we saw last week, a wind and the embers that it carries are what really bring a lot of uncertainty.
Well, people there are just starting to take stock of all that they've lost and what comes next for them. For the most part, these communities are still off limits, even to residents, because investigators are going through with cadaver dogs to search for possible victims.
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