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Abed Ayoub

Abed Ayoub

Attorney and civil rights advocate; Dearborn, Michigan native who served as National Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), later ADC National Legal & Policy Director.

Jul 1, 2026

23:23
You're not,
23:24
man.
23:25
Look, nothing about it is to be romanticized.
23:29
It's hard work.
23:30
Not a lot of people appreciate it.
23:32
Not a lot of people know what goes into it.
23:36
The reason those phone calls come in at 1 or 2 in the morning to an attorney like myself or someone else that's in a similar position, there's many out there.

33 MINS LATER

speaker_1NARRATOR
56:41
Yeah.
William Brangham
William BranghamCORRESPONDENT
30:28
That said, does any of the actions alleged here give the government the authority to deport someone and change their immigration status?
30:39
Absolutely not.
30:40
The statements coming from the government are very heavy on accusations, but very light on evidence.
30:45
Nothing has been shown or proven to be true so far, and nothing will be shown to proven, or, or proven to be true.
30:52
The only thing Mr. Mahmoud has done that they don't like is, um, the fact that he was part of these protests, organizing these protests and these rallies against the state of Israel and its actions.
31:02
And that seems to be a taboo topic that you can't talk about.
31:05
And if you do, this is the situation you end up in.
William Brangham
William BranghamCORRESPONDENT
32:02
What, what do you s- foresee happening?

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