Columbia's Mahmoud Khalil felt he was being kidnapped as detention unfolded, lawyers say
The Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University hid students sought by the US
"felt"? He was kidnapped. By the state.
I was going to say... It is kidnapping. It's just state-sanctioned kidnapping.
Just to drive home the point on how horrible this person is being treated right now, This is exactly how terrorist in Afghanistan would’ve treated a person that had turned on Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. They isolate them. They don’t give them any information. They don’t give them the opportunity to know why they’ve been detained. They have no access to family members or to correspond with an attorney.
After 24 hours, I bet that student was terrified out of his mind.
This just isn’t right we can’t let the federal government detain people just because they feel like it without giving us a lawyer and A warrant or cause for arrest. 
There is no law in America anymore. I'm sorry.
I'm a bit of a word nerd, and I was wondering the etymology of the word kidnap.
kidnap (v.)
1680s, thieves' cant, a compound of kid (n.) "child" and nap (v.) "snatch away," which probably is a variant of nab (v.). Perhaps a back-formation from kidnapper, which is recorded earlier. Originally "to steal children to provide servants and laborers in the American colonies.
Source:https://www.etymonline.com/word/kidnap
It's as American as apple pie apparently.
