The public media martyrdom of would-be deportee Mahmoud Khalil continues on National Public Radio. Khalil, who performed openly pro-Hamas activities during post-October 7 campus protests as a green card grad student at Columbia University, before the Trump Administration moved to arrest and deport him, was celebrated on Tuesday morning’s All Things Considered. The fawning profile by DHS/immigration reporter Ximena Bustillo and national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson: “One year later: Mahmoud Khalil remains in limbo but ready to fight.” Khalil attended protests that distributed Hamas and Hezbollah literature, which the United States considers terrorist organizations. There's no First Amendment right to support violence and terror, and no right for green card holders to stay in the country if they violate American policy, especially not a graduate student who abused his host country’s hospitality by harassing its Jewish citizens – there were many disgusting anti-Semitic incidents at Columbia University. Khalil could never bring himself to condemn Hamas. Yet NPR stuck up for Khalil’s Columbia protesting, without providing any examples of his controversial stands like supporting Hamas’s murderous rampage of October 7, 2023. Does NPR really want listened to sympathize more for Khalil than the innocents killed, raped, and kidnapped? (New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who refused to condemn Hamas, and his publicly pro-Hamas wife hosted Khalil and his wife for dinner Monday night.) From the text version of NPR’s soddenly sympathetic profile: Last year, Mahmoud Khalil helped his wife pick out a name for their baby while he sat in immigration detention. For more than 100 days, Khalil waited in immigration custody to learn if he would be allowed to live in the U.S. with his son, whose birth he missed, or be sent to a country he had never lived in. A year after Khalil was detained outside his New York apartment, his legal odyssey continues. The detention last March of Khalil, then a Columbia University graduate student, marked the start of a nationwide effort to deport noncitizens who speak out about Israel's war in Gaza. He now sits at the vanguard of a legal battle over immigrants' due process and civil rights pitted against the Trump administration's mass-detention and deportation policies. "One year after, the government has not charged me with any crimes or presented any evidence that I committed wrongdoings whatsoever," Khalil told NPR in a recent interview. "I was absolutely targeted for what I represent, which is a student movement that erupted against the U.S. support for Israel." The bathos intensified. Life is different now for this legal permanent resident. He wears a baseball cap to cover his face. He looks over his shoulder while walking on the street. He doesn't go out alone with his son for fear he could be detained again. The on-air transcript had a couple of additional pathetic pro-Khalil details. XIMENA BUSTILLO: At first, the administration relied on a legal justification from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio deployed a rarely used statute to declare that Khalil's presence in the U.S. had potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences. Khalil says the administration wanted to make an example out of him because of his vocal support for Gaza. Except it wasn’t merely “vocal support for Gaza,” a euphemism if there ever was one for justifying Hamas’s violence. NPR’s reporters let him get away with similar blandishments unchallenged, as when Khalil claimed “I was absolutely targeted for what I represent, which is a student movement that erupted against the U.S. support to Israel.” After Khalil whined “This case has been my full-time job,” reporter Carrie Johnson chimed in with sympathy, and Khalil was granted the final humanizing detail. JOHNSON: And that job is far from over. Khalil's son turns 1 in April, and a celebration to mark the end of Ramadan will come in mid-March. Those moments weigh on his mind. KHALIL: That's one of my biggest fears, to be honest, now -- that I will not be here for his first birthday or even for the first Eid together - because these are important milestones. The Bibas brothers, murdered along with their mother by Hamas at age 4 and 10 months, won’t see any more birthdays either. Did Khalil ever have any sympathy for their murders? Would NPR dare ask him?