Armao on the Brink: The Detainment of Mahmoud Khalil on Democracy

This weekend ICE officers seized Mahmoud Khalil, a leading pro-Palestinian organizer at Columbia University, who holds a green card and is married to an American citizen who is eight months pregnant. He has never been charged much less convicted of a crime. In addition to the threat to immigrants, many American who care about the first Amendment right to protest are in an uproar. Mark Dunlea interviewed UAlbany Journalism Professor Rosemary Armao about this issue.

It’s not the only looming danger to Freedom of the Press today. I have a few questions for Rosemary.