Washington:
An American Immigration Judge ruled Palestinian worker on Friday Mahmud Khalil President Donald Trump’s administration may be allowed to move forward with his effort to remove a student of Columbia University from the United States, a month after the arrest in New York City.
The fate of the ruling Khalil was not the final determination of the ruling Khalil by the Lasel Immigration Court Judge Jamie Coms in Louisiana. But it represented an important victory for the Republican President, which has not been accused of any crime, in his efforts to deport foreign supporters Palestinian students, which are legally in the United States and like Khalil, like Khalil.
Citing the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, US State Secretary Marco Rubio, appointed by Trump, last month determined that Khalil could damage the interests of the US foreign policy and should be deported for “otherwise legitimate” speech and activism.
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Commons said that he did not have the right to abolish the state secretary. The judge denied a proposal to Rubio by Khalil’s lawyers and questioned him about the “appropriate basis” for his determination under the 1952 law.
The judge’s decision came after a 90-minute hearing held in a court held in a court located inside a jail premises for immigrants surrounded by a double-fencing razor wire run by private government contractors in rural Louisiana.
Khalil, a prominent person in the Palestinian student protest movement, who is crying in the premises of New York City in Columbia, was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, conducts Algerian citizenship and became an American law permanent resident last year. Khalil’s wife is an American citizen.
For now, Khalil remains in Louisiana Jail, where federal officials transferred him to his Columbia University apartment on 8 March after arrests about 1,200 miles (1,930 km) away. Commons granted Khalil’s lawyers to apply for relief by 23 April, before she believes whether to issue exile orders. An immigration judge may rule that a migrant cannot be exiled due to possible harassment in a home country among other limited grounds.
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In a separate case in New Jersey, American District Judge Michael Farbiarz has blocked exile, while he consider Khalil’s claim that he was arrested earlier in violation of security security for freedom of speech of the US Constitution.
Khalil addresses a judge
As the Commons postponed, Khalil bowed forward, asked to address the court. Commons hesitated, then agreed.
Khalil, in his hearing on Tuesday, quoted his remarks as saying that the “fixed process was not important to the court compared to rights and fundamental impartiality”.
Khalil said, “Out of what we saw today, no principles were present today or in this whole process.” “This is why the Trump administration has sent me a thousand miles away from my family to this court.”
The judge said that his decision turned into a two-page letter signed by Rubio and presented to Khalil’s lawyer.
Khalil’s lawyers, appearing through a video link, complained that this week the Commons were given less than 48 hours to review the letters and evidences of the ruubio submitted by the Trump administration. Mark Van Der Hout, Khalil’s chief immigration Attorney, asked to delay the hearing repeatedly. Commons reprimanded him that the judge wandering for the purpose of the hearing, twice saying that he had “an agenda”.
Commons said that the 1952 Immigration Act gave a “unilateral decision” to the State Secretary to make a determination about Khalil.
Khalil should be removed, Rubio wrote, “For his role in antisementary opposition and disruptive activities, which promotes a hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.”
Rubio’s letter did not accuse Khalil of breaking any law, but said that the State Department can cancel the legal status of migrants that can damage the interests of US foreign policy even if our beliefs, associations or statements are “otherwise valid”.
After the Commons finished the hearing, several supporters of Khalil used to cry as they exited the court room. Khalil stood and smiled at them, which gave the shape of the heart from his hands.
Khalil has said that the support of Israeli’s military occupation of the Palestinian regions by the US government is wrongly criticized with opposingism. His lawyers told the court that he was presenting evidence in Khalil’s interviews along with CNN and other news outlets last year, in which he condemns antisementism and other bias.
His lawyers have said that the Trump administration was targeting him for the protected speech, including the right to criticize the US foreign policy.
Van Der Hout said in a statement after hearing, “Mahmud was subject to an extremity of the fixed process, a weapon of immigration law to violate his right to a fair hearing and dissatisfaction,” Van Der Hout said in a statement after the hearing.
The US immigration court system is run and its judges are appointed by the US Department of Justice, which is different from the judicial branch of the government.
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