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Federal appeals court rules Judge No authority to order release columbia university Mahmoud Khalil graduated immigration detention, marks a major victory for Donald Trumpof administrative Efforts to expel pro-Palestinian activists.
2-1 decision, by control panel The ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia effectively paves the way for Khalil’s possible rearrest.
this ruling ordered dismissal of his initial lawsuit challenging his detention.
U.S. Circuit Judges Thomas Hardiman and Stephanos Bibas, who were appointed by Republican presidents, said Khalil’s claim should be heard through an appeal of an immigration judge’s final deportation order under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
“The plan established by Congress to govern the immigration process provides Khalil with a meaningful forum to advance his claims later in a petition to review the final order of removal,” they wrote in an unsigned opinion.
Khalil did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Khalil, a prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, was arrested by immigration enforcement officers on March 8 in the lobby of his Manhattan university residence.
President Donald Trump has previously labeled such protests anti-Semitic and vowed to expel foreign students who participated, making Khalil the first target of the policy.
Although Khalil was initially detained in New York, he had been transferred to New Jersey by immigration officials by the time his attorneys filed suit, resulting in the transfer of his case. He was previously released from a Louisiana immigration detention center in June under an order from U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz in Newark, New Jersey. department Department of Homeland Security.
Khalil is Deprived of Green Card and Arrested on March 8 in front of his then-pregnant wife at their New York City apartment building. ice The detention center in Louisiana is about 1,300 miles from their home in New York.
After his arrest, Khalil was accused of engaging in “anti-Semitic activity” for participating in campus-wide anti-Israel war demonstrations, a charge Khalil and his legal team vehemently deny.
Officials acknowledged that Khalil had not committed any crime, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to invoke a rarely used law to justify his arrest, claiming that Khalil’s presence in the United States undermined foreign policy interests in preventing anti-Semitism.
