Columbia University activist arrested Federal Immigration Authority and faced deportation that could deport him support for Hamas and issued a statement from the detention center.
Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old green card holder who married a U.S. citizen, was arrested by immigration and customs law enforcement officials on March 8.
exist letter Khalil, released by his lawyer on Tuesday, described his arrest as “anti-Palestinian racism.” He also accused the Columbian government, including former university president Minouche Shafik, who was criticized for failing to adequately respond to allegations of anti-Semitic acts by campus activists before she eventually resigned.
“My unfair detention demonstrates anti-Palestinian racism, which both the Biden and Trump administration have shown over the past 16 months as the United States continues to Supply Israel “Using weapons that kill Palestinians and prevent international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has promoted efforts to expand American law and practices used to violently suppress Palestinians, Arab Americans and other communities. That’s why I’m targeted.”
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President Trump, Mahmoud Khalil and protesters (Getty Image)
Khalil played a major role in Colombia’s anti-Israel protests, and he is fighting his deportation in court. Shortly after the arrest, the judge Temporarily blocked the Trump administration From expelling him.
In one of Khalil’s first legal victory, the judge ordered his deportation case to be heard Wednesday in New Jersey, not Louisiana. The judge enumerated a law requiring lawyers in the case to file a lawsuit first to challenge the same jurisdiction in his detention.
The Trump administration has previously said bed bugs had occurred in New Jersey detention centers near Harrier’s arrest, causing them to have him transported to Louisiana.
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“While I await legal decisions that balance my wife and children’s future, those who can keep my goals comfortable at Columbia University,” Khalil wrote in the letter. “President Shafik, Armstrong and Dean Yarhi-Milo have laid the foundation for the U.S. government to arbitrarily train pro-Palestinian students and allow viral campaigns (based on racism and false propaganda) to target me.”
The New York Police Department’s Officer Patrol Patrol was displayed outside the Columbia University campus in New York City on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Several students were arrested as officials cleared the camp on campus lawn. (Peter Gerber of Fox News Digital)
Khalil said his arrest was directed to him First Amendment Rights and wider attempts Trump administration “Suppress objections.” He wrote that students, activists and elected officials “must unite to defend their rights to protest Palestine”.
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“I have always believed that my responsibility is not only to liberate myself from the oppressors, but also to free my oppressors from their hatred and fear.”
