With damning new evidence piling up in the case of deported MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego García and the media trapped defending his gang tattoos, there is a clear need for a new exemplar to promote against the perceived excesses of Trump immigration policy. Tonight, a new consensus poster boy may have emerged in Mohsen Mahdawi.
Watch the glowing coverage garnered by Madhawi on NBC Nightly News:
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
4/30/25
6:38 PM
LESTER HOLT: Now to an update on a Columbia University student activist detained by the Trump administration. Today a federal judge ordered Mohsen Mahdawi to be released on bail as he fights deportation. We get more from Stephanie Gosk.
STEPHANIE GOSK: Tonight, Palestinian Mohsen Mahdawi is released on bail, and sounding victorious.
MOSHEN MAHDAWI: For anybody who is doubting justice, this is a light of hope. A hope…
