2025年3月8日晚，马哈茂德·哈利勒（Mahmoud Khalil）正与怀孕八个月的妻子努尔·阿卜杜拉（Noor Abdalla）一同走进他们位于哥伦比亚大学的公寓大楼大厅，一名身穿便衣的男子紧随其后溜了进来。还没等他反应过来，他就被美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）拘留了。
On the night of March 8, 2025, Mahmoud Khalil was walking into the lobby of his Columbia University apartment building with his wife, Noor Abdalla, who was eight months pregnant, when a man in plain clothes slipped in behind them. Before he knew what was happening, he was being detained by ICE.
哈利勒非常担心怀孕妻子的安全。他回忆道：“在被塞进那辆没有标记的ICE车辆前，我听到的最后一句话是他们威胁要逮捕努尔。”
Khalil feared for his pregnant wife's safety. "The last thing I heard before being shoved into the unmarked car of ICE was them threatening Noor [with] arrest," he recalls.
哈利勒出生于叙利亚的一个巴勒斯坦难民营，18岁时逃离该国。他持有绿卡，拥有在美国居住和工作的合法身份。当时29岁的他是一名研究生，也是哥伦比亚大学亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动中最引人注目的面孔之一，曾在抗议者与校方之间担任谈判代表。
Khalil was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and fled the country at 18. He had a green card giving him legal status to live and work in the United States. Then a 29-year-old graduate student, he had become one of the most visible faces of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, where he was a negotiator between the protesters and the administration.
尽管哈利勒没有犯罪记录，也从未受到过任何刑事指控，但国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥（Marco Rubio）仍宣布应将其驱逐出境，并援引了一项此前极少以这种方式针对永久居民使用的条款。被捕后，哈利勒被送往路易斯安那州农村地区的一个移民拘留中心，那里距离他的家有一千多英里远。
Though Khalil had no criminal record and had never been charged with a crime, Secretary of State Marco Rubio nevertheless declared that he should be deported, invoking a provision that had rarely been used against a permanent resident in this way. After his arrest, Khalil was sent to an immigration detention center in rural Louisiana, more than a thousand miles from home.
“指控称，美国的外交政策认为我的存在对该国产生了不利影响，”哈利勒说。“一个月后，当政府必须出示证据时，他们只拿出一份简短的文件，称我在美国原本合法的活动为犹太学生创造了敌对环境，且违背了美国打击反犹太主义的努力。”哈利勒在拘留所度过了104天，期间阿卜杜拉生下了他们的第一个孩子，一个儿子。2025年6月，一名联邦法官下令将其释放。但政府仍在试图将他驱逐出境，哈利勒正准备请求最高法院审理他的案件。
"The charge is that the foreign policy of the United States found my presence in the country to have adverse consequences," Khalil says. "A month later, when the government had to show the evidence, they only had ... a short document saying that my activities in the United States, otherwise lawful, have created a hostile environment for Jewish students, and it goes against the United States' efforts to combat anti-Semitism." Khalil spent 104 days in detention, during which time Abdalla gave birth to their first child, a son. In June 2025, a federal judge ordered him released. But the government is still trying to deport him, and Khalil is preparing to ask the Supreme Court to hear his case.
2026年9月，哈利勒起诉哥伦比亚大学，指控该校未能保护他和其他巴勒斯坦学生免受骚扰，并在他们举报骚扰后对其实施报复。哥伦比亚大学的一名发言人表示：“营造一个让社区每一位成员都感到受欢迎、受到支持并享有安全感的校园环境，是我们作为一所大学以及履行学术使命的基础……学校致力于保护社区成员免受歧视和骚扰，并在收到相关反映时迅速作出恰当回应。”
In September 2026, Khalil filed a lawsuit against Columbia, accusing the university of failing to protect him and other Palestinian students from harassment, and retaliating against them when they reported it. A spokesperson for Columbia told : "Creating a campus environment where every member of our community feels welcome, supported, and safe is fundamental to who we are as a university and our academic mission. ... The University is committed to protecting our community from discrimination and harassment and responding promptly and appropriately when concerns are raised."
哈利勒的新回忆录部分取材于他被美国移民与海关执法局拘留期间写下的日记。尽管经历了这些，他仍然“坚定信奉”法治，也“坚定信奉”美国。
Khalil's new memoir, draws in part from the diary he kept in ICE detention. Despite his experience, he remains a "firm believer" in the rule of law — and in the United States.
“三年前我来到这里时，我觉得这里可以让我拥有美好的生活，我的职业生涯也有很大的发展潜力；同时，这也是一个适合我抚养孩子的地方，”他说。“然而，现任政府却试图把我描绘成一个暴力分子、一个憎恨这个国家的人，一个试图破坏这个国家原则的人。但实际上，事实完全相反。”
"When I came here only three years ago, it's a place where I found that I may have a great life, ... [where] I would have potential in my career, but also it's a place where I want to raise my children," he says. "This administration is trying to portray me as someone who is violent, someone who hates this country, someone who's working to undermine the principles of this country. It is the total opposite, actually." Interview highlights On the conditions he experienced in ICE detention in Louisiana What is happening behind ICE detention gates is horrendous. And I believe that it is a stain on the U.S. consciousness. It was crowded with hundreds of people who were told that their existence is illegal and no one of them could go free or could be set free. I shared an area with over 70 other men. The lights were always on, no privacy whatsoever. But there was something else, which is the despair in these men's eyes. They were called names, they were called criminals, while, in fact, they were trying to do everything right. Most of them, at least the ones that were around me, were picked up from their ICE check-ins, from their court hearings or from their work sites. Once you enter these detention centers, you see a very different reality about this country that supposedly champions human rights and liberty and justice. But once you cross into these prisons, literally that door, you see the opposite side of what's actually happening in this country.
关于他在路易斯安那州ICE（移民与海关执法局）拘留中心所经历的种种： ICE拘留中心里的状况实在令人发指。我认为，这种行为是对美国社会良知的玷污。那里挤满了数百人，他们被告知自己的存在是“非法的”，而且没有人能够获得自由。我和另外70多名男性被关在同一个房间里；灯光始终亮着，他们完全没有隐私可言。
更令人痛心的是，那些被关押的人眼中充满了绝望。他们被辱骂为“罪犯”，而事实上，他们只是在做自己应该做的事情而已。他们中的大多数人（至少是我身边的那些人）都是因为在ICE的执法行动、法庭听证会或工作场所被抓走的。一旦你进入这些拘留中心，你就会发现：这个号称倡导人权、自由和正义的国家，其实有着截然不同的现实。
Every story was horrendous and heartbreaking, and when I entered detention, I thought my case was the most horrific, but ... in a day, I [realized] I'm lucky actually; at least I have lawyers supporting me, but the vast majority of them, they would be lucky to have even one lawyer defending them.
每一个故事都令人震惊和心碎。当我刚被关进去时，我以为自己的遭遇是最糟糕的……但后来我意识到自己其实很幸运——至少还有律师在支持我；而他们中的绝大多数人，甚至连一个律师为他们辩护的机会都没有。
On the detention center's location in rural Louisiana What is happening behind ICE detention gates is horrendous. And I believe that it is a stain on the U.S. consciousness.
关于拘留中心的地理位置（位于路易斯安那州乡村地区）： ICE拘留中心所处的环境实在糟糕至极。这种做法无疑是对美国社会道德和价值观的严重侮辱。
Mahmoud Khalil It was, like, an hour away from the closest airport, Alexandria. There isn't any direct flight or many direct flights to or from big cities. So it was designed to make people feel isolated so that they can give up quickly. And that's also another part of the bad conditions there. They want detainees to give up very quickly, because if they decide to fight, that would take time. If it's comfortable, people would actually fight. But if it's so bad, people will say, why would we fight our case?
马哈茂德·哈利勒：那个地方距离最近的亚历山大机场大约有一个小时的路程。那里没有直飞大型城市的航班，或者直飞航班的数量也非常有限。这样的设计目的就是为了让被关押的人感到孤立无援，从而让他们更快地放弃抵抗。而这，也是当地恶劣环境的一部分——他们希望被关押者能尽快放弃抵抗；因为如果他们决定抗争，那将会耗费大量时间。如果环境还算舒适的话，人们或许还会继续抗争；但当环境如此恶劣时，人们自然会想：“我们为什么要为自己的权益而抗争呢？”
On having to listen to his wife give birth over a payphone while in detention Every time I try to remember that moment I'm speechless, because I should have been free at home with my newborn son. But instead I was forced to listen to my wife, Noor, delivering over the phone. It was after midnight, like around two or three in the morning. ... That's why I'm really now fighting all this, because I can never forgive those who stripped that moment from me, a moment that I believe every couple looks forward to. ... Noor and I went above and beyond to be together for that moment. I refused job offers abroad ... just [so] that we can be together during that moment.
关于在拘留期间通过公用电话听妻子分娩的痛苦经历：每次我试图回忆那个时刻，我都感到无言以对——因为我本应该和新生儿一起在家中享受幸福时光。然而现实却是，我被迫通过电话听妻子努尔的分娩过程。那时已经是午夜过后，大概凌晨两三点钟了……正因为这个原因，我现在才如此坚决地抗争着——我永远无法原谅那些剥夺我这个时刻的人；那个时刻，对每一对夫妻来说都应该是无比珍贵的。
On his role as a negotiator with Columbia University during the pro-Palestine protests in the spring of 2024 During the encampment, the students … nominated me to be in this position for different reasons. One of them [was] my experience working in diplomacy. I spent five years working for the British Embassy in Beirut, for the Foreign Office, doing diplomacy.
为了能够陪伴在妻子身边，我和努尔付出了巨大的努力；我甚至拒绝了国外的工作机会……只为了能在那个特殊时刻与她在一起。
I came with very long experience working in such spaces, working in bureaucracy. … Columbia dealt with us as a PR threat or a brand issue, a public relations threat or an issue to deal with rather than actually [as] students who were grieving for what's happening in Palestine, students were actually asking for change.
关于他在2024年春季支持巴勒斯坦抗议活动中的谈判角色：在抗议活动中，学生们出于多种原因推选我担任谈判代表。其中一个原因是我在外交领域的丰富经验——我在贝鲁特的大使馆以及英国外交部工作了五年，积累了丰富的处理外交事务和官僚程序的经验。哥伦比亚大学将我们视为一个“公关威胁”或需要处理的“品牌问题”，而不是将我们视为那些为巴勒斯坦的正义而呐喊的学生……而这些学生其实真正渴望的是改变现状。
On if he witnessed anti-semitism in the movement at Columbia I believe the Palestinian movement, or the movement for Palestinian Liberation at Columbia, was really rooted in dignity, safety and equality for everyone. And we are so proud to have built this movement with our Jewish peers, whether they are students, but also faculty. And to me, the movement itself, absolutely, there was no anti-semitism. There was no place for anti-semitism there. And that's why I keep repeating again and again against the narrative that Columbia itself helped push, because we must take anti-semitism seriously, like all forms of bigotry. We have also to acknowledge when anti-semitism is being used or weaponized to protect Israel from criticism. ...
关于他是否在哥伦比亚大学的运动中目睹了反犹太主义，我认为哥伦比亚大学的巴勒斯坦运动，或者说巴勒斯坦解放运动，其根基确实是关于每个人的尊严、安全和平等。我们非常自豪能与我们的犹太同伴——无论是学生还是教职员工——共同建立这场运动。对我而言，这场运动本身绝对不存在反犹太主义。那里没有反犹太主义的容身之地。
Of course, there were some sporadic anti-semitic incidents that happened mostly from individuals outside of Columbia because they felt that Columbia was the hot-spot for activism.
这就是为什么我一再重申，要反对哥伦比亚大学自身推波助澜的那种叙事，因为我们必须像对待所有形式的偏执一样，严肃对待反犹太主义。我们也必须承认，反犹太主义有时被利用或武器化，以保护以色列免受批评。……当然，确实发生过一些零星的反犹太事件，这些事件大多来自哥伦比亚大学以外的个人，因为他们认为哥伦比亚大学是激进主义的热点地区。
But the students were very conscious of that, and I remember we had a teach-in at Columbia … like, Anti-Semitism 101 … to help us understand the same way we had a lot [of teach-ins] about anti-Blackness. [We had] teach-ins about Palestinian and Black solidarity, Palestinian and Jewish solidarity.
但学生们对此非常有意识，我记得我们在哥伦比亚大学举办过一场教学活动……类似于“反犹太主义入门”……旨在帮助我们理解，就像我们举办过许多关于反黑人种族歧视的教学活动一样。我们还举办过关于巴勒斯坦与黑人团结、巴勒斯坦与犹太人团结的教学活动。所以，这些学生确实是在努力学习。
So these students were really trying to learn.
关于为何他坚持抗争而不选择自我驱逐 如果我离开且不抗争，这届政府对我所说的一切都将成为定论。我将无法直视儿子迪恩的眼睛，告诉他在我认为自己是少数特权巴勒斯坦人之一、知道迪恩今晚能吃饱饭、家人今晚不会遭以色列导弹轰炸、我去学校不会在检查站被拦截的时刻，我却放弃了抗争。我怀着极大的慎重承担这份责任，因为我必须战斗。
On why he keeps fighting and doesn't self-deport If I leave and don't fight, whatever this administration said about me would be the record. I wouldn't be able to look my son Deen in the eye and tell him that I gave up on the fight at a time where I consider myself one of the privileged Palestinians who knows Deen will be fed tonight, that my family wouldn't be bombed tonight by an Israeli missile, that I wouldn't be stopped at a checkpoint going to my school. So I take that responsibility with so much care that I need to fight.
我不该仅因沉默无法终结任何事就退缩。即便我离开这个国家，也不认为那能终结这个国家移民家庭的多少苦难，也无法终结巴勒斯坦人民的苦难。
I shouldn't just shy away because my silence wouldn't end anything. If I leave this country, I don't think that would end much of the misery of the immigrants' famil[ies] in this country, but also for the Palestinian people.