Did pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil's wife say Syria is safer than US? Fresh controversy over her statement

MAGA supporters berated pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalif's wife and called for her deportation too as her husband remains in ICE custody in Lousiana while Donald Trump's administration prepares for his deportation from the country. Eight months pregnant, Noor Abdalla faced scrutiny as she initially did not want to reveal her name, so she issued a statement through Khalil's lawyer on March 11, keeping her identity a secret.
In her statement, Abdalla who is a US citizen said she was born and raised in the Midwest and her parents came to the US from Syria. "They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety and stability. But here I am, 40 years after my parents immigrated here, and just weeks before I'm due to give birth to our first child, and I feel more unsafe and unstable than I have in my entire life," the statement read leading to a massive uproar in the social media.

"Basically, Mahmoud's wife thinks ISIS is better than Trump. Maybe she can go to be an ISIS bride in Syria," MAGA commentator Laura Loomer posted on X.
"Syria is safer for her, her unborn child, and her criminal husband," another wrote. "She shouldn't be allowed to give birth in America," another user wrote.


Amid the row which was also over the secrecy of her name, Abdalla came forward and gave an interview to Reuters in which she said Khalil asked her if she knew what to do if immigration agents came to their door. "I didn't take him seriously. Clearly, I was naive," Abdalla said. A 28-year-old dentist, Abdalla was present at the court Wednesday when the judge extended his order blocking Khalil's deportation for the time being.
"US immigration ripped my soul from me when they handcuffed my husband and forced him into an unmarked vehicle Instead of putting together our nursery and washing baby clothes in anticipation of our first child, I am left sitting in our apartment, wondering when Mahmoud will get a chance to call me from a detention center," she wrote in her statement.

Khalil was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and came to the US on a student visa in 2022 to study at Columbia University. Khalil and Abdalla met in Lebanon in 2016 when Abdallajoined a volunteer program that Khalil was overseeing. They were friends before they started their long-distance relationship which culminated in their marriage in 2023. Khalil got his green card in 2024.