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.
President Donald Trump heralded Khalil’s arrest as the first “of many who come,” swore on social media to deport students he described when dealing with “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.”
Khalil, who acted as spokesperson for Columbia demonstrators, is not accused of a crime. White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that the administration had moved him to deport him under a part of the Immigration and Nationality Act that gives the State Secretary the authority to deport a non-citizens in the field of foreign policy.
Civil rights groups and the lawyers of Khalil say that the government uses unconstitutionless to use its immigration control powers to prevent it from saying.
Khalil’s detention has led to protests in New York City and other cities. On Tuesday a man was arrested and 11 other people received a summons for alleged disorderly behavior during a demonstration near Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan, the police said.
Khalil ended his requirements for a Master’s degree of Columbia in December. Born in Syria, he is a grandson of Palestinians who were forced to leave their home country, said his lawyers in a legal application.
He is married to an American citizen who expects their first child.
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