Ice and the Geo Group have denied Mahmoud Khalil a contact visit with their newborn son, who was born last month
Ice and private officials Geo Group prisons contractor They have rejected a contact visit request from Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, and his family, according to the American Union of Civil Freedoms.
It Ice decision And private prisons group denies Khalil the opportunity to celebrate their newborn son, who was born last month, while the graduation student and Palestinian activist It remains in ice custody in Louisiana.
“After flying more than a thousand miles in Louisiana with our newly born son, his first flight, all so that his father finally could keep him in his arms, Ice has even denied this more basic human right,” said his wife on Wednesday, Noor Abdalla, stated in a statement in the organization of civil rights without performance.
“This is not only without a heart. It is deliberate violence, the calculated cruelty of a government that tears families without remorse.”
According to the ACLU, the Denial of the ICE and the prison contractor came after several applications from the Khalil Legal Team, which highlighted the federal policies that promote contact visits between the children and their detained parents. ICE officials cited “a contact policy with contact with the Central Louisiana Louisiana Ice Processing Center (Clipc) and” unspecified “security concerns” related to the presence of a mother and baby in a non -safe part of the installation. “
Khalil, a 30 -year -old legal permanent residence, was found under arrest by ICE officials at his apartment from Columbia University in New York in early March. As a key figure in last year’s Columbia University’s demonstrations against the war in Gaza, it has been in the radar.
The administration has affected Khalil as pro-Hamas behavior, damaging arguments that could face deportation based on foreign policy reasons, nodging a little known benefit from the immigration and nationality law. However, they have come out with empty hands when presenting tough tests to support their claims of pro-Hamas conduct.
The administration later accused Khalil of immigration fraud, which its lawyers also dispute.
An Immigration Judge of Louisiana recently confirmed the right of the Administration to proceed with the deportation, considering that the presence of Khalil can have “adverse consequences of foreign policy” for the United States as “reasonable facially”.
Khalil’s arrest is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to guide student protesters with green cards and student visas, who have raised serious questions about their rights to the first amendment.