A student of Columbia University arrested by immigration officials was released by a federal judge when he fights Trump’s attempts to remove from the country.
US district judge Geoffrey W. Crawford on Wednesday awarded Mohsen Mahdawi’s bail, a Green Card Palestinian holder who participated in protests against Israelia on academic ground. Mahdawi, 34, was arrested in Vermont’s immigration office at the beginning of this month after appearing at the interview as part of his citizenship request.
“For my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering and see freedom and is very early,” Mahdawi said a crowd of supporters in front of the vermont court after being released, according to the US Civil Freedom Union statement.
Mahdawi, who was born and grew up in a refugee camp on the West Bank, co -founded the Palestinian Student Union with another student of Colombia Mahmúda Khalil. Since his arrest in March, Khalil has become a symbol of Trump’s administration against the protests against the campus over the war of Israel and Hamas.
“Mohsen is a beam of light in its communities and we are so relieved that today it came out of the courtroom door and back into the arms of their loved ones,” Mahdawi, a lawyer, said. “Their demands and actions are unjustified without evidence and are the shame of the US Constitution.”
In addition to the deportation of students, Trump’s administration quotes anti -Semitism on the university campuses to push elite universities to rework their policies. The University of Harvard filed a lawsuit against the administration decision to freeze billions of dollars in federal financing.
Crawford concluded that despite the claims of the Mahdawi government, it was a threat to the community, the evidence “does not support the detection of danger”.
“Mr. Mahdawi has made a substantial claim that the government arrested him to suppress a speech he disagrees with,” Crawford said. “Such an act would be a violation of the Constitution.”
The US Ministry spokesman did not respond to e -mail with a search for a decision.
The judge also quoted what he called the “extraordinary environment” of the Mahdawi case and other recent arrests of foreign students.
“Legal residents – are not accused of crimes or misconduct – are arrested and threatened by deportation for stateing their views on the political issues of the day,” Crawford said. “Our nation has seen times like this, especially during red frightened.”
The judge also stated that he had received more than 125 letters that confirmed Mahdawi’s non -violent nature, even from Jewish colleagues and professors.
Khalil – who is held in Louisiana – won a procedure victory on Tuesday when a federal judge in New Jersey rejected the government’s argument that he lacks jurisdiction to hear the student’s case. The decision means that Khalil can challenge the decision of the immigration court that has made it possible to deport.
The immigration authorities tried to fly Mahdawi to Louisiana after his arrest and detention, but were blocked by another federal judge in Vermont. The government tried to suspend Mahdawi’s release for seven days, but this request was rejected.
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