Mahmoud Khalil finally allowed to hold one-month-old son for the first time | Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud KhalilA graduate of Colombia University and his arrest of the Palestinian activist, and finally allowed him to keep his baby for the first time Thursday – one month after his birth – thanks to a federal judge who prevented Trump administrationEfforts to keep the father and the infant separated by a glass barrier.

The visit came to a hearing in the migration scheduled for Khalil, the permanent legal resident who was detained in Louisiana prison since March 8.

The question of whether Ailil will be allowed to carry his newly born child, or a debt, or forced him to meet him through a barrier, which sparked days of legal fighting, which sparked the claims of Khalil’s lawyer that he is subject to political revenge by the government.

On Wednesday night, a federal judge intervened in New Jersey, Michael Varbarars, allowing the meeting to advance on Thursday morning, according to Khalil’s lawyer.

The judge’s order came after federal officials said this week that they would oppose the efforts of his lawyer to secure what is known as a “visit to“ communication ”between Khalil; His wife Nour Abdullah; And their son.

Instead, they said that Khalil could be allowed to visit “unseen”, which means that he will be separated from his wife and son by a plastic division and is not allowed to touch her.

The Ministry of Justice officials wrote in the court file on Wednesday: “Granting Khalil this relief from the family visit actually gives him a privilege that no other detainee receives.” “Allowing Dr. Abdel -Ala and Waloud a new to attend a legal meeting will turn a legal visit to a family.”

Brian Akuna, Acting Director of the Field Office in New Orleans, said in a written statement that he would be “unsafe to allow the wife of Mr. Khalil and a newborn child in a guaranteed part of the facility.”

In their own legal deposits, Khalil’s lawyers described the government’s refusal to grant the visit as “additional evidence of the retaliatory motivation behind the arrest and distant detention of Mr. Khalil,” adding that his wife and son “are far from a security threat.”

They pointed out that Abdel -Ala traveled about 1500 miles (2400 km) to the distant detention center in the hope of their son’s introduction to his father.

“This is not only without a heart,” Abdullah said about the government’s position. “It is deliberate violence, and the calculated cruelty of the government that tears families without remorse. I cannot ignore the echoes of this pain in the stories of Palestinian families, which are torn by military prisons and Israeli bombs, denied life.”

Khalil was the first person to be arrested under Donald Trump’s promised campaign against the demonstrators against the war in Gaza, and he is one of the few who remained in the reservation as his case made its way through both immigration and the federal court.

The federal authorities did not accuse Khalil of committing a crime, but they sought to deport him on the basis that his prominent role in protests against the Israeli war in Gaza may undermine American foreign policy interests.

His request was rejected to attend the birth of his son on April 21 last month by the United States for Migration and Customs.

in A message to his son published in the guardianKhalil wrote after the birth: “My heart suffers that I could not carry you in my arms and hear your first cry, so that I could not release your tight fist or change your first diapers.

Khalil added: “My absence is not unique.” “Like other Palestinian fathers, I have separated from you through racist systems and distant prisons. In Palestine, this pain is part of daily life … the sadness and the father that I feel and I feel that he was unprecedented in a sea of ​​sadness in which Palestinian families sank for generations.”

Farbiarz is currently studying a seam of Khalil to release him as he resumes the decision of the immigration judge in Louisiana that he can be deported from the country.

On Thursday, Khalil appeared in front of the immigration judge, Jame Comans, where his lawyers presented a certificate about the risks he would face if he was deported to Syria, where he grew up in a refugee camp, or Algeria, where he maintains citizenship through a distant relative.

His lawyers presented a certificate from Columbia University The faculty members and students who testify to Khalil’s personality.

In one of the advertisements, Joseph Holie, a professor of classics, said that he first presented Khalil to the university director to work as a spokesman for the campus demonstrators, describing him as “an exported, principled and respectful member in our society.

“I never knew Mahmoud to adopt any feelings or biases hostile to the Jews, and I heard to him the power of anti -Semitism on multiple occasions.”

There was no ruling regarding the appeal on Thursday. Comans gave lawyers in the case until 5 pm June 2 to present the written final arguments.

Claire Shibman, the temporary president of Colombia, Claire Shibman, admitted the absence of Mahmoud from the start of Wednesday and said that many students “grieved” that he could not be present. Her speech was loud from some graduates, along with the chants of “Mahmoud Al -Hur”.

Slave I accepted the diploma of Khalil On his behalf at an alternative graduation ceremony on Sunday.

Within 75 days since his arrest, at least three other international university students were launched after weeks of legal procedures by their lawyers. And include Rümeysa öztürkand Mohsen Mahdawi and Badar Khan is a Syrian.

The three were targeted to deport before Trump administrationAnd challenging the legitimacy of their detention with a series of legal suggestions and fragments in the courts of federal provinces. The judges in all their cases agreed to release them while they were carrying out the Immigration Court cases.