Mahmoud Khalil misses son's birth after ICE official denies his request to be there

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Mahmoud Khalil, center, and his wife Noor Abdalla, left, in violet headscarf, at Columbia University last year.

Khalil has been held in Louisiana since ICE agents arrested him in New York over his pro-Palestinian activism. He instead experienced the birth by phone.

(Image credit: Mary Altaffer)

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