Judge Orders Release of Mahmoud Khalil
“US District Judge Michael Farbiarz announced the decision from the bench in New Jersey”
Why is this guy even still here? Wasn’t he set for deportation months ago?
The Times of Israel reports:
US judge orders Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from detention
A federal judge on Friday ordered the US government to free former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from the immigration detention center where he has been held since early March while the Trump administration sought to deport him over his role in pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests.
US District Judge Michael Farbiarz announced the decision from the bench in New Jersey, responding to a request from Khalil’s lawyers to free him on bail or, at the very least, move him from a Louisiana jail to New Jersey so he can be closer to his wife and newborn son.
Khalil was the first arrest under US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on students who joined campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Khalil must be expelled from the country because his continued presence could harm American foreign policy.
Farbiarz had ruled earlier that the government can’t continue to hold Khalil on those grounds, but the government argued the legal US resident was instead being held based on allegations that he lied on his green card application. Khalil disputes the accusations that he wasn’t forthcoming on the application.
Khalil was detained on March 8 at his apartment building in Manhattan over his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. His lawyers say the Trump administration is simply trying to crack down on free speech.
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I’m so sick of this crap. I sincerely wish these judges face some karma for their progressive driven decisions.
I thought we had already ascertained that cloaked yutzes in New Jersey have f-all authority over a federal prisoner in Louisiana.
The media continue to claim that Mahmoud is a graduate student at Columbia. Even Grok claimed he was a graduate student there. Grok finally admitted he was wrong. As of January, 2025 he was no longer a student but an outside agitator.