‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails

Delegation visits jails where Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk are being held and denounce authoritarian' Trump

Congressional lawmakers denounced the treatment of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, the students being detained by US immigration authorities for their pro-Palestinian activism, as a national disgrace" during a visit to the two facilities in Louisiana where each are being held.

We stand firm with them in support of free speech," the Louisiana congressman Troy Carter, who led the delegation, said during a press conference after the visits on Tuesday. They are frightened, they're concerned, they want to go home."