
Mahmoud Khalil's wife, Noor Abdalla, says his arrest by ICE agents was "one of the most terrifying" moments of her life
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When federal immigration officials confronted Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil inside his New York City apartment building earlier this month, his wife, Noor Abdalla, assumed it was a misunderstanding. She rushed upstairs to their apartment to get documents proving he was a U.S. green card holder.
"My husband was taken away from me in the middle of the night. It was one of the most terrifying times of my life. I don't think I've ever experienced anything scarier than that," Abdalla described during an interview with Erin Moriarty for "CBS Sunday Morning" airing on Sunday. It's the first sit-down TV interview Abdalla has given since her husband's arrest on March 8.

Washington —The Trump administration is implementing a reduction in force for the Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, effectively gutting the department's civil rights and immigration liaison services.

When federal immigration officials confronted Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil inside his New York City apartment building earlier this month, his wife, Noor Abdalla, assumed it was a misunderstanding. She rushed upstairs to their apartment to get documents proving he was a U.S. green card holder.