google-site-verification: googlec7193c3de77668c9.html

Judge allows Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation

2efe8e10 1712 11f0 b1b3 7358f8d35a35.jpg

Advertisements

A US judge has ruled the government can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate arrested last month by immigration officers.

Mr Khalil has been held at a Louisiana detention centre since 8 March, when US immigration officers told him he was being deported for taking part in campus protests against the war in Gaza.

The pro-Palestinian activist is a permanent legal US resident, and has not been charged with a crime. The government is seeking to remove him under a Cold War-era immigration law.

In a letter written from the facility, Mr Khalil has said his “arrest was a direct consequence” of speaking out for Palestine.

The judge said the Trump administration was allowed to move forward with its effort to deport Mr Khalil because the argument that he poses “adverse foreign policy consequences” for the US is “facially reasonable”.

The judge gave Khalil’s lawyers until 23 April to appeal against his deportation to Algeria or Syria.

“I would like to quote what you said last time that there’s nothing that’s more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness,” Mr Khalil said in court.

“Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process,” he said. “This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”


BBC News

Views: 2

See also  Kanye West ordered to pay $140K in Malibu mansion renovation lawsuit

Check Also

Pentagon says US military to be an 'AI-first' fighting force

The US military has agreed eight new contracts with big tech firms as it expands …

Camp Mystic, where 25 girls died in floods, drops reopening plans after parents protest

Cici and Will Steward, whose eight-year-old daughter Cila remains the only child still missing after …

Former Florida Congressman David Rivera convicted in Venezuela lobbying case

Prosecutors alleged that, in 2017 and 2018, at the behest of former Venezuelan President Nicolás …

Leave a Reply

Available for Amazon Prime
Cordless compact car vacuum cleaner. zasoby edukacyjne oferowane przez mostbet polska. Bu nedenle cassinox hakkında yapılan değerlendirmelerde güvenlik konusundaki titiz tutumumuz en çok öne çıkar.