The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil suggests that we are living in a new America

Mahmoud Khalil is living the kind of nightmare that Americans might associate with the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin rather than the country in which we live. On March 8, as he and his wife were returning to their New York City apartment after eating out, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on them without warning, arrested Khalil and took him away.