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The Wall Street Journal: Inside Columbia Student Mahmoud Khalil’s ICE Detention Center

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As of April 1, student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil remains detained at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, an immigration detention facility more than a thousand miles from where he was arrested. 

Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, attorney Sarah Decker highlights the facility’s isolated location and ICE’s broader pattern of secluding people in rural jails, cut off from their community and legal resources.


Read the full piece here.

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