This interview originally aired in July — and now Christiane Amanpour and PBS are replaying it again. With everything happening in America and around the world, they chose to recycle a sympathetic sit-down with Mahmoud Khalil. That isn’t journalism — it’s propaganda.
Amanpour asked Khalil if jail had “beat that out of you.” His response? That ICE detention facilities were so horrendous he had to go vegetarian.
“On the inside as, as, as you’d expect, the food was as close as could be to an inedible. Um, I had to switch to vegetarian because the meat, um, was. I, I, I threw up like after I ate the meat there. It was so cold. We had to ask for more blankets, um, but no one would answer, um um, our our, um, our requests.”
Then he launched into a speech about what he called “undocumented people”:
“A lot of people inside, like, they, they don’t know, ah, their rights. They, they, they are not allowed, um, to, um, um, to, to question, like, ICE about, like, why you brought me here. Because a lot of them were brought from the court. Literally someone was in his court, um um, defending his case, a silent case, and was taken into custody, um, from, um, from, from court. Um, so it’s it’s, there’s a lot of dehumanization.
Um, the Trump administration is trying to paint all these, like um, undocumented people as criminals. Um um, however, it’s, it’s the opposite. Uh, it’s totally the opposite. A lot of them, uh, have been in the United States for, um, uh long number, for, for for for a large number of years. Um, they have, um, US, um, uh citizen, like, uh, family, family members um, yet, yet they feel that, um, they are defeated.”
Khalil used the word “undocumented” — a term invented and pushed by the Democrat Party and the fake news media to hide the fact that we’re talking about people who broke U.S. immigration law. He says illegals are totally the opposite of criminals, yet admits some were literally taken from court while defending their cases. He argues that being in the U.S. for years should excuse illegal status, when in reality that just means a longer violation. He points to U.S. citizen relatives as proof they aren’t criminals, even though family ties don’t erase breaking the law. He presented those points as proof that the Trump administration was wrong to portray them as criminals. But that logic is nonsense — length of stay and family ties don’t erase the fact that someone is in the country illegally.
What makes this interview even more hilarious is that we’re supposed to believe Khalil went through the legal immigration process and secured permanent residency — yet he doesn’t even understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration. It’s clear he has no idea what he’s talking about, and he certainly shouldn’t be leading protests or speaking as any kind of authority. But PBS keeps replaying the interview.