The Trump administration has acquired a mysterious law during the weekend in moving to the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, the permanent legal resident of the United States, which recently graduated from Colombia University, where he helped lead in the campus protests against high civilian losses in Gaza during the Israel campaign against Hamas.
Mr. Khalil was arrested by immigration officers on Saturday and then sent them to a detention center in Louisiana. On Monday, a federal judge in New York, Jesse M. Foreman, I command The federal government is not to deport Mr. Khalil while reviewing a petition that defies the legitimacy of detention.
Here is what to know about the administration’s attempt to deport Mr. Khalil.
Who is Colombia graduate?
Mr. Khalil, 30, obtained a master’s degree from Colombia College for International and Public Affairs in December. He has a Palestinian heritage and married to an American citizen with eight months.
In Colombia last spring, Mr. Khali assumed a major role in the protests led by students on the campus against the efforts of the Israel war in Gaza. He described his position as a negotiator and spokesman for the University of Colombia, the apartheid, a group in support of the Palestinians.
What is the legal basis for his arrest?
The Trump administration publicly did not publicize the legal authority of arrest. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that two people were aware of the issue, they spoke on the condition that his identity was not disclosed to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. Judgment of the Immigration and Nationality Law From 1952, which gives him a comprehensive power to expel foreigners.
The ruling says that “a foreigner has the presence or activities of the United States, as the Foreign Minister has reasonable reasons for the belief that it is likely to have serious consequences for foreign policy on the United States.”
What accuses Mr. Khalil?
that it It is not very clear.
Mr. Rubio re -published Statement of the Ministry of Internal Security Mr. Khalil was accused of “activities led to Hamas.” But officials did not accuse him of making any contact with the terrorist group, taking the guidance from it or providing material support to it.
Instead, the logical basis for the administration is that the protests played by Mr. Khalil played a major role in it that were anti -Semitic and created an anti -Jewish students in Colombia, according to people who have knowledge of the issue. They said that the argument of Mr. Rubio is that the US foreign policy includes combating anti -Semitism all over the world and that the residence of Mr. Khali in the country is undermining this goal.
Could this happen to more green or green cards?
President Trump said that the case of Mr. Khalil was “the first arrest of many coming.”
But the permanent legal resident, or the green card holder, is protected by the constitution, which includes the rights of free amendment to freedom of amendment and the fifth amendment rights. Many legal experts said that the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Mr. Khalil under INA’s ruling is likely to face a constitutional challenge.
What happens after that?
There is a small precedent for the deportation of one of the permanent legal residents based on the provision of a law in 1952, which gives the state secretary a broad authority to do so on a foreign political basis.
A lawyer for Mr. Khalil, Amy Jarir, said that her client will “challenge” the actions of the Trump administration in the court. On Monday, Judge Foreman, from the Federal Provincial Court in Manhattan, set a two -day hearing after that after the Trump administration was prevented from deporting Mr. Khalil to “maintain the jurisdiction of the court.”
What did President Trump say about the demonstrators supporting the Palestinians?
Since 2023, Mr. Trump has repeatedly pledged to cancel the visas of international students who are participating in the protests supporting the Palestinians and criticizing Israel’s war efforts.
In a march in the state of Iowa on October 16, 2023, Mr. Trump announced that “in the wake of the attacks on Israel, the Americans felt disgusting from seeing open support for terrorists among the legions of foreign citizens on the campus of universities. They teach your children hating.”
He added: “In light of the Trump administration, we will cancel the visas of students for radical foreigners, anti -American and anti -Semitism in our colleges and universities, and we will send them home directly.”
In a speech in Las Vegas on October 28 of that year, Mr. Trump said, “We will end the visas of all these sympathizers with Hamas, and we will get them out of the campus of universities, outside our cities and get them out of our country.” On November 8, 2023, the campaign stopped in Florida, and said that “he will quickly cancel student visas for all sympathizers of Hamas on the campus of universities, which were infected with radicalism.”
