Mahmoud Khalil’s attorneys accuse the Trump administration of “targeted, retaliatory detention”

president Donald Trump “weapon[d] Immigration Law “against a Columbia University A demonstratic school student faces deportation, claiming the new court file.

in Blinding in the Libyus, The detained Colombia student activist Mahmoud Khalil President accused Trump and the Minister of State Marco Rubio Of the misuse of the federal government’s authority to send a political message.

According to Khalil’s lawyers, the Trump administration participated in “a target and vengeance detention and an attempt to remove a student demonstrator because of his constitutional protected speech.”

“Minister Rubio or any other government official claimed that Mr. Khalil had committed any crime or in reality, to break any law at all,” he claimed, noting that Rubio’s decision alone led to his arrest.

Khalil was arrested at the end of last week Ministry of Internal Security The officers who initially told him the visa of his student were canceled. When Khalil presented his green card, they told him that he was also nullified, without a hearing.

Khalil claims that his arrest officers “did not show him an order” when they arrested him in the lobby of the student housing of the University of Colombia in which he lived.

After presenting a preliminary petition, the authorities transferred Khalil to Louisiana-a country inside more conservative and friendly Fifth circle The court – in what his lawyers described “as revenge and punishment for the speech of Mr. Khalil Al -Protected.” Before the modified petition, the judge placed the Trump administration’s attempt to deport Khalil to a hiatus on Wednesday.

The Trump administration took an unusual task in removing Khalil, as he claims to deposit, as Khalil claimed that the White House requested an update from the agents during his detention. President Make up Earlier this week, many student activists will face arrest or deportation, as well, for pro -Palestinians.

At least one student from Colombia, Leqa Kordia, was arrested for overcoming a visa this week after participating in Gaza Solidarity camps, DHS announced Friday.