@newyorker: Mahmoud Khalil became a symbol of the anti-Zionist movement. Now the Trump Administration is trying to kick him out of the country. Earlier this year, as part of a case called Khalil v. Trump, the majority opinion stripped Khalil of previous legal protections, making him vulnerable to deportation. And it went further, narrowing the right to habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful detention. “We game-planned for five scenarios—one to five, from best to worst,” one of Khalil’s lawyers said. “We’re in Scenario 5.” Khalil’s lawyers are currently planning to appeal to the Supreme Court. They worry that if the Court agrees to hear his case it could issue an opinion that further curtails the speech rights of immigrants, or of all Americans. But if it doesn’t take the case Khalil may be out of options, at which point he would have to leave the U.S. In Syria, where Khalil grew up, life was untenably brutal, “but at least we knew the risks,” he told Andrew Marantz. “Nobody was gaslighting us, saying, ‘This is a democracy.’ Then you come here, and it’s all so confusing.” At the link in our bio, Marantz spends time with Khalil and his family, who are navigating daily life in a state of legal limbo and fear. #journalism #politics #gaza #mahmoudkhalil

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