NEW YORK (AP) – A federal court in Manhattan will hear arguments on Wednesday in a lawsuit that contained the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, A graduate student at Columbia University that trumps the Trump government about his participation in pro-Palestinian protests at the school.
Immigration -Enforcement agents arrested khalilA permanent American resident, in New York on Saturday and he has been moved to an immigration center in Louisiana.
The American district judge Jesse Furman ordered that The 30-year-old is not deported While the court regards the legal challenge of his lawyers, who are trying to return Khalil to New York and is released under supervision. They claim that he is concerned with protected freedom of expression and that the government there is illegally revenge against him.
A joint application by the lawyers of Khalil and the government prior to Wednesday’s hearing said that the government intends to claim that the southern district of New York is not the right location for the case.
Columbia University became the center of an American pro-palestine protest movement That struck the American university campuses nationally last year and led to more than 2,000 arrests.