Recently freed pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil told CNN that the Trump administration tried to "make an example" of him with his arrest and immigration detention. Why it matters: Khalil's detention was an early flashpoint in President Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses following Israel's operations in Gaza.

Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian-American activist and Columbia graduate suing the Trump administration for $20 million, claiming illegal arrest, wrongful detention, and defamation tied to his pro-Palestinian campus activism.