Over the last three days, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the School of International and Public Affairs, has been kidnapped from his University housing and subjected to political imprisonment despite his permanent residency status. His face was used in a mugshot-like social media graphic posted by the White House X account as a means of threatening every “terrorist sympathizer” college student with the same fate. At the same time, his name has been dragged and muddied by several major right-wing outlets. One need only look at the New York Post’s recent headline: “Who is Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University agitator detained by ICE for deportation?”