Overview

• Khalil’s lawyers filed a $20 million claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act accusing the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the State Department of false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and defamation.
• The filing asserts Trump administration officials orchestrated a campaign to terrorize Khalil and his family by branding him antisemitic and secretly transferring him to a remote Louisiana detention center.
• A federal judge ordered Khalil released on bail after he spent 104 days in an ICE facility, ruling that his attempted deportation on foreign policy grounds likely violated his constitutional rights.
• Khalil now faces fresh fraud charges over his green card application, which his attorneys characterize as baseless retaliation that should be dismissed as his immigration case proceeds.
• He plans to distribute any damages award to fellow activists targeted under Trump’s protest crackdown and would accept an official apology and revisions to deportation policies.