Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for 104 days, in a Friday interview on MSNBC recounted what it was like to miss the birth of his first son.

“I lost, like, one of the divine moments with — with my wife and — and son. I mean, the first time was literally, like, 3:30 a.m., moments after, like, the delivery. I just heard him crying," Khalil said in an excerpt of an interview airing Saturday on MSNBC's "The Weekend: Primetime."

"And — and that literally, like, got me in the heart. And I think it's — it's just unbelievable that someone had the cruelty to take that moment from — from me,” Khalil said.

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