The Judge for the Immigration Court has determined that Donald Trumpadministration can deport a University of Columbia Student activist for his involvement in the Palestinian campus demonstrations.
The administrationHe claims that Mahmoud Khalil sets “unfavorable foreign policy consequences” for the United States “Faily Reasonable”, in the opinion of the Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Commens.
Arrest of Khalil – which is currently detained by UA Louisiana Object more than 1,300 miles from New York cannot be born – induced international bitterness and fears that Trump administration starts demonstration in campus against the Israeli disorder in the support of Gaza and American Support.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio He lifted hundreds of student visas due to campus activism, leading to several High profile arrests of international scientists Who is now waiting for deportation hearings in remote prisons across South America.
The judge gives Khalil’s lawyers until 23. April to argue against his removal in Syria or Algeria.
“I would like to quote what you said that was the last time for this court there is nothing more important than rights for rights and fundamental righteousness,” Khalil said at the end of Friday for the Jeni Immigration Court, Louisiana.
“Clearly what witnesses we were, none of these principles were present today or throughout this process,” he added. “That’s exactly why the trump sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family. I only hope that the urgency you considered appropriate for me accession to hundreds of others who have been here without hearing.”
Case Challenging constitutionality of the custody of the Colombian city – a lawful permanent inhabitant with green cardboard – also plays in the Federal Courtroom in New JerseyWhere the lawyers successfully moved his jurisdiction to deal with the legal challenge for his arrest.
Khalil remained in Immigration and customs implementation custody from the 8th March. The Management Board accused him of “anti-Semitic activities” and support Hamaswhich he was completely rejected. Officials admit that he did not commit any crime, but claim that it can be removed because of what Rubio characterized as “potentially serious unfavorable foreign policy consequences.
A Two-page memorandum Introduced to the Immigration Court as evidence for his removal were recognized by their protest activities, “but he claimed to be allowed to stay in the country in the country and in the United States to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”
Khalil and his legal team claim that his arrest and detention – and an attempt to remove from the country, who is currently blocked by a court order – whether his retalius are First amendment The right to freedom of speech and his fifth amendment is entitled to the law, among other things.
His lawyers are challenging what they call “targeted, retaliating detention and an attempt to remove student protesters for its constitutional protected speech.”
“This is a dangerous slope,” said his lawyer Marc Van der Hout on Thursday journalists. “People like Mahmoud have the constitutional right to speak in this country and the government should not use this truly false lawsuit to say that it is against foreign policy interests.”
The decision on Friday is “Executive Pretay” by Trump Administration, according to Khalil’s lawyer Amy Greer.
“Every person in this country has the right to speak the issues that are important to them – and that the decision will be received in the statement,” I relate to that for Mahmoud every day since he kept until he worked until he is at home. “
Khalil, who is Palestinian, grew up in a refugee camp in Syria. In the United States, he entered the student visa in 2022. in order to continue his master’s degree in the public administration, which he finished last year. His predicted graduation date is 2025. May.
He became a lawful permanent resident of 2024. Years.
Khalil “called Israel’s action in Gaza genocide and criticized University of Columbia Because, in his respects, funding and otherwise facilitating such violence, “his lawyers He wrote in court reports last month.
Plainclothes Federal Agents followed Khalil and his wife in the lobby of a residential building, and two other officers were approached in the building, the countries of submitting the request. They never gave a warrant, according to his lawyers.
Was moved to custody in New Jersey And then flying Louisiana The next day.
“I am a political prisoner,” Khalil said in the public announcement published in 19. March.
Trump Administration “Menu Menu as part of a broader strategy for the disagreement of the disagreement” in which “the bearers of the visa, will be able to go green cards and equally targeting their political beliefs,” he said.