Lawyers of the graduate student at the University of Colombia are scheduled to receive former University of Colombia Trump administration In a courtroom in New Jersey on Friday, while the president's team is fighting to deport the anti -Israel activist.
There will be a hearing in the federal court in Newark, New Jersey, At 10 am before Judge Michael E. Farabiers. New York Jesse Jesse Foreman transferred the case to New Jersey, where Khalil was in detention when his lawyer lifted their original matter from the body of the beloved, who challenges his detention.
Since then Khalil has been transferred to Louisiana, where the Trump administration wants to play the case.
Khalil, who bears the status of the permanent legal resident in the United States, was under the anger of the administration for his alleged support for Hamas terrorists in the wake of the October 7, 2022 attack on Israel. The Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) said that Khalil “has led activities to Hamas, a dedicated terrorist organization.”
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Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is speaking to the press during a press conference organized by the demonstrators supporting the Palestinians who held a new troop on the campus of the Maurinjaside Heights at Columbia University on Friday evening in New York City on June 1, 2024. (Getty Images)
“We will cancel visas and/or green cards for Hamas supporters in America so that they can be deported,” Foreign Minister Marco Rubio He wrote in a post on X earlier this month.
The alleged dhs in a Sunday introduction In the US local court in New Jersey, who intentionally failed to reveal his work with the Syrian Office at the British Embassy in Beirut when he applied for permanent residence in the United States.
Federal officials claimed that Khalil was “unacceptable at the time of its amendment” due to “fraud or deliberate distortion of the material truth” in his request.
The agency also accused Khalil of failing to reveal his work with the United Nations Relief and Business Agency for refugees and Palestinian membership in Stripping the apartheid.
The file said: “It is a black craft law that is that distortions in this context are not a protected speech.” “Thus, the allegations of modifying the first Khalil are a red herring.”
“Winning without a war banner” outside the White House on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC, calls the group to President Trump to liberate Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian refugee whose green card was canceled because of his involvement in demonstrations at the University of Colombia. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images to win without war)
Mark van der Hot, a lawyer of Khalil, and the wife of Khalil, Nour Abdullah, released data in a series of Instagram posts. They described Khalil as “a political prisoner held in The ice attachment in Louisiana. “
Khalil's lawyers have argued that his support for the Palestinians was protected by freedom of expression and that the deportation efforts in the administration are an attempt to prevent his “current and future speech” and deter others from doing the same.
“Politics, including the demand for Mr. Khalil, does not give the correct notice to anyone who resides in the country, any of their discourse, opinions, beliefs, or call, will lead to their targeting for detention and removal, and provides government officials an unrestricted estimation of the target speech,” the lawyers' books.
His lawyers also indicated that the administration does not determine who is considered a “supporter of Hamas”. They say there is no clarity in the activities of Khalil, which “is in line with Hamas.”
The demonstrators gathered against the arrest of a former graduate student in Colombia, Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City on Monday, March 10, 2025. Khalil was one of the main students for students in the student camp last year at the University of Colombia. (Stephanie Keith in favor of Fox News Digital)
Federal judge in South New York area The Trump administration's efforts were prevented to deport Khalil on March 10.
The video shows the arrest of Colombia's anti -Israeli leader Mahmoud Khalil
On March 18, Khalil wrote: “In the coming weeks, students, preachers and elected officials must federation to defend the right to protest against Palestine. The stake is not only our voices, but the basic civil freedoms for all. Knowing that this moment goes beyond my individual circumstances, I hope that you will be free to watch my first lovely child.”
Khalil, A citizen from Syria And the citizen of Algeria, the United States entered the student visa in 2022 and later submitted to become a permanent resident in 2024.
It is the first goal in the Trump administration's crusade to cancel student visas to participate in the protests.
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Khalil's arrest comes after President Donald Trump issued January 29 Executive order Entitled “Additional measures to combat anti -Semitism” that requires that college activities “by foreign students and employees” on the basis of anti -Semitism.
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The anti -Israel protests sparked ruin on the campus after the October 7, 2023 attacks, which led to the promise of the Trump Pal campaign Cancellation of foreign students visas.
“For all the resident foreigners who joined the protests supporting jihadism, we note:” Come 2025, we will find you, and we will leave you, “Trump quoted a fact -habit newspaper issued by the White House.”
The demonstrators gathered against the arrest of a former graduate student in Colombia, Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City on Monday, March 10, 2025. Khalil was one of the main students for students in the student camp last year at the University of Colombia. (Stephanie Keith in favor of Fox News Digital)
DHS and ICE did not respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.
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Khalil Amy Jarir of Dratel and Louis, the Constitutional Rights Center, the Civil Liberties Union in New York, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Alina Das, co -director of the immigrant rights clinic at New York University Law Faculty. Fox News Digital Communication to comment.
Maria Baronic in Fox News contributed to this report.
