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Verite News: Mahmoud Khalil still detained in notorious Louisiana detention center as case is moved to New Jersey

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Following his arrest earlier this month, student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil remains detained in a notorious Louisiana ICE facility. 

Speaking with Verite News, attorney Anthony Enriquez calls out Louisiana’s rural, isolated ICE jails and the government’s practice of “forum shopping” immigration cases – arresting someone in a jurisdiction where the case law is favorable to the person arrested, and then sweeping that individual away to another jurisdiction.

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