The immigration judge has eliminated that a graduate student at the Palestinian Columbia University, which participated in the protests against Israel, could be deported. Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers said they would appeal Friday.
Federal immigration agents, Mr. Khalil, was detained last month, the first arrest in the era of President Donald Trump’s campaign for students who joined the campus protests against the war in Gaza.
Mr. Khalil, the American legal resident, was transferred to the Immigration Center in Gina, Louisiana, thousands of miles away from his lawyer and his wife, an American citizen who is scheduled to be born soon.
Here is a look at what happened so far in Mr. Khalil’s legal battle and what happens after that:
Arrest
Mr. Khalil, a 30 -year -old graduate student in international affairs, worked as a negotiator and spokesman for students at the University of Colombia who seized the campus park last spring to protest the Israel military campaign in Gaza.
The university brought the police to dismantle the camp after a small group of demonstrators seized an administrative building. Mr. Khalil is not accused of participating in the construction occupation and was not among the people who were arrested regarding the demonstrations.
But pictures of his face -free face, as well as his willingness to share his name with the journalists, made him a goal of contempt among those who saw the demonstrators and their demands anti -Semitism. The White House accused Mr. Khalil of “bias with the terrorists”, but he has not yet cited any support for the demand.
He was arrested on March 8 in the lobby of his university -owned apartment.
Legal battle
Mr. Khalil is not accused of violating any laws during the protests in Colombia. The government said that non -employees who participate in such demonstrations must be expelled from the country to express opinions that the administration is hostile and “supportive of enthusiasm”, in reference to the Palestinian militant group that attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
Mr. Khalil’s lawyers have stabbed the legitimacy of his detention, saying that the Trump administration is trying to deport him for protected activity in the first amendment of the American constitution.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio rarely used a law to justify the deportation of Mr. Khalil, who gives him authority to deport those who constitute “serious and serious foreign policy consequences for the United States.”
Ruling
Jame E. Comans spent on Friday the government claiming that Khalil’s presence in the United States had offered “potentially severe consequences for foreign policy” enough to meet the requirements of his deportation.
Kuman’s said that the government “established with clear and convincing evidence that it is removable.”
Earlier of the federal judges in New York and New Jersey, the government ordered the government not to deport Khalil while plays his case in court.
The following steps
Mr. Khalil’s lawyers said they would continue to fight. They are planning to appeal to the Immigration Calls. They can also follow the issue of asylum on his behalf.
Although the judge found that Mr. Khalil is removable on foreign policy, nothing will happen quickly in immigration procedures, his lawyer, Mark van der Hot, said it is
The judge gave them until April 23 to search for a concession.
“Today, we saw our worst concerns playing: Mahmoud was subject to the task of due legal procedures, a flagrant violation of his right in a fair hearing, and weapons of the immigration law to suppress the opposition,” Mr. Van der said in a statement.
Immigration authorities have taken the expansion of other Israeli critics on the campus of universities, arrested a researcher at Georgetown University, which spoke on social media about the Israel war, Gaza, canceled the visas of students to some demonstrators, and the deportation of a brown university professor who said that they had sexually attended the Leader of the Hezbalah leader, which is required of Edrag.
This story was reported by Associated Press.
