Handcuffed and shackled, Mahmoud Khalil was rushed from New York to Louisiana last weekend in a manner that left the outspoken Columbia University graduate student feeling like he was being kidnapped,

An ICE detention facility in Louisiana made national headlines this week after a Columbia University graduate was arrested and taken there by federal immigration officials. Here's a closer look at Louisiana's ICE facilities.

Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student who was born in Syria to Palestinian parents and is now a permanent U.S. resident, was arrested Saturday night by federal immigration agents at at his university-owned residence.