"I think it would be very devastating for me and for him to meet his first child behind a glass screen," his wife, who is eight months pregnant, told Reuters.

Trying to deport Khalil for demonstrating against Israel is an obvious violation of his rights and an attempt to intimidate others, they say.

The wife of the Columbia University rabble-rouser detained by the feds says he tried to prep her on what to do if an ICE agent showed up at their door — just days before he was nabbed.

Noor Abdalla, wife of detained Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, says she thought her husband didn't have to worry about ICE.

Two days before U.S. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist asked his wife if she knew what to do if immigration agents came to their door. Noor Abdalla,

The wife of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist, said she didn't think she and her husband, a legal U.S. permanent resident, would have to worry about immigration agents coming to their door.