The American immigration judge in Louisiana on Friday (April 11) decided that postgraduate student Columbia University Mahmúd Khalil could be deported as a risk of national security, which means essential escalation in the intervention of Trump’s administration against student protesting.
Immigration judge Jamee E. Comans concluded that the government “showed clear and convincing evidence that it is removable”. She said that the ongoing presence of Mahmúd Khalil represented “potentially serious consequences of foreign policy” for the United States.
Mahmúd Khalil, 30 years, a legal population of the US, who took care of the title in the field of international affairs, was not charged with any crime. His lawyers claim that his arrest and detainment violate his constitutional rights.
“Mr. Khalil’s deportation attempt has nothing to do with foreign policy,” said his lawyer Marc Van der Hout, accused the administration of using the immigration law to silence disagreement.
The first high -ranking arrests of the protesting gaza
Khalil was arrested on March 8 in the entrance hall of his university apartment by federal immigration agents. He was quickly overlapped into a device for retention of immigration in Jena, Louisiana, thousands of kilometers from his legal team and his wife – an American citizen.
His arrest meant the first promoted event under the promise of President Trump to focus on foreign students who participate in the demonstrations of the campus against the Israeli War in Gaza.
Rubio quotes only rarely used deportation status
US Secretary Marco Rubio referred to the little -used provision that allows individual deportation to be considered “potentially serious adverse consequences of foreign policy”.
This provision became the central point of the government argument, and Judge Comans eventually agreed to justify Khalil’s deportation, despite her earlier call for direct evidence that linked him with such a threat.
Federal judges entering a delay of deportation
Although the immigration court ruled against Khalil, the federal judges in New York and New Jersey issued orders temporarily blocking its deportation, while legal proceedings continue.
The lawyers of the Ministry of Justice said on Friday that even if the judge decided to immigrate in favor of Khalil, he would not have the power to immediately dismiss him. It would have to be followed by a separate deposit hearing.
Khalil was a visible presence on the Propalestinian protests in Columbia, which served as a negotiator and spokesperson when students took over the Campus lawn. He was not accused of participating in the later occupation of the administrative building and was not arrested during these events.
Yet, from his visibility – including the emerging unasked and speaking of the press – she made him a political flash.
Crackdown reaches through American campuses
Trump’s administration increased the action against demonstrators of students critical of Israel. The authorities arrested student Georgetown University, abolished student visas and deported professor of brown universities associated with the burial of Hezbollah abroad.
Meanwhile, Columbia University faces its own punishment: administration has moved to reduce over $ 400 million in federal research funding, which with the objective of alleged inability of anti -Semitism on academic land.
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Lawyers continue the legal struggle
Khalil’s legal team committed that he would fight, seek surrender and seek relief in federal courts.
“Freedom of expression is not a threat to national security,” said Van der Hout. “What is happening here is political prosecution masked as a recovery of immigration.”
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