Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration has attended for deportation after it helped organize pro-palestinian protests as a student at Columbia University, will appear in the Immigration Court in Louisiana on Thursday.
Khalil, a green card holder who is married to an American citizen, was carried out in a Louisian detention center since ICE agents arrested him in the lobby of his apartment building in New York City in March.
Khalil’s lawyers are prepared to argue about a series of matters before the Court, including their pending asylum application, their motion to dismiss the case because they claim that he was illegally arrested without a court order, his motion of continuity and the second set of charges that the Department of National Security Claims converts it into Deportivo, what a center of accusation about his application for green letters.
But, ultimately, the decision of what to discuss at the hearing will depend on the immigration judge Jamee Comans, who last month governed deportable Khalil based on the affirmation of the Secretary of State of Marco Rubio that his continuous presence and actions in the country propose “adverse consequence of foreign policy.”
She did not request to review any evidence that supports those statements.
Comans has not yet ruled on the second set of accusations regarding its green card application, that Khalil’s lawyers say they are largely based on conservative tabloids. Recently they presented several documents and statements from their previous employers who say they show that he did not misrepresent their job history.
The student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen in a Pro-Palestine protest camp on the Campus of Columbia University in New York, on April 29, 2024.
Ted Shaffrey/AP, file
Khalil himself can also testify why he believes that his life could be at risk if he is denied asylum or if he is deported to Algeria or Syria as the government says he wants to do.
Before the hearing, Khalil’s lawyer filed more than 600 pages of documents, statements and analysis that supports his statement that he is not anti -Semitic and that he could face torture and death if he were deported.
It was expected that Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, who recently gave birth to the couple’s son, attended the audience. It would be the first time that Khalil will see his son in person after he was born on April 21.
On Wednesday, Khalil’s lawyers asked a federal judge to intervene and allow Khalil, his wife and newborn son to meet without Plexiglass separating them. The judge ordered the installation to allow Khalil, his wife and his lawyer to meet to discuss his habeas request.
