“Devastating blow”: Student activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, U.S. immigration judge rules

Mahmoud KhalilOn Friday, a judge ruled that the student activist who led the protests supporting the Palestinians at Columbia University last year could be deported by the Trump administration. He was Khalil He was arrested in the New York City apartment on March 8The first arrest in the era of President Donald Trump’s agenda to take strict measures against the demonstrators who joined the campus demonstrations against the Israel war in Gaza.

Khalil is a green card holder and a permanent legal resident married to Nour Abdel -Ala, who is an American citizen. He was transferred to a detention center in Gina, Louisiana. No criminal charges were brought against Khalil – instead, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio was martyred 1952 Cold War Law This allows the deportation of non -American citizens if they are It is considered A threat to American foreign policy.

Judge Jamie Kuman’s from the Immigration Court in Lael Caplory said that she lacks the authority to cancel the foreign minister. ABC News I stated that Khailal had addressed the court, repeating the confirmation of some of the previous comments of the Commission.

Khalil said: “I would like to quote what I said the last time, that there is nothing more important for this court of legal procedures and basic fairness.” “It is clear that what we have seen today, none of these principles was present today or in this entire process. This is exactly the reason that the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1000 miles from my family. I just hope that the urbanization that you consider is suitable for me hundreds of others who were here without hearing months.”

Khalil will not be deported immediately and his lawyers pledged to appeal if such a matter happens. NPR I mentioned This “gave Kuman’s Khalil until April 23 to request the establishment of his deportation if his lawyers believed that he is qualified for one person. The judge said if they did not meet with this deadline, so you would ask him to deport him to Syria, where he was born, or to Algeria, where he is a citizen.”

After the ruling, one of the supporters of Khalil read a statement from his wife, Abdel -Ela, who described the decision as “a devastating blow to our family.”

“No one can be removed from his home to speak publicly against the killing of Palestinian families, doctors and journalists,” said a Abda statement. “Today, in court, the government has repeated the same unfounded racist allegations of my husband that we heard over and over again, and it is an attempt to stain those who claim to end the genocide in the brutal Israel in Gaza. My husband is a political prisoner who deprives him of his rights because he believes that the Palestinians deserve determination and freedom.”