Anti-Israeli activist Khalil should remain in the immigration prison in Louisiana: Doj
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Lawyers from the Ministry of Justice asked a federal judge on Tuesday to reject the anti-Israeli activist Mahmoud Khalil to the authorities to release him or transfer him from a detention center for immigration to Louisiana to a New Jersey.
Government lawyers have said that the courts did not have the power to intervene in the decision of the executive power to hold a non-citizen who is in the procedure of referral.
“The congress authorized the detention of extraterrestrials and gave a significant discretionary power to the executive in this regard,” they wrote.
Lawyers also said that in terms of logistical, the Trump administration could not transfer Khalil even if it wanted. Khalil had asked a judge on Monday to release him from the detention of the ICE to Jena, Louisiana, on bail while his business proceeds or transfers it in the installation of Elizabeth, New Jersey, who is closer to his wife, newborn and his legal team.
Anti-Israeli activist Mahmoud Khalil ransacked the case of the Trump administration against him in a Washington Post column this week. (Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images Reuters / Shannon Stapleton)
MJ lawyers cited the affidavit of an ice official, who revealed that the installation of ice in Elizabeth had 355 prisoners, which means that it was greater than the capacity of 51 people.
“The ice retains the discretion of holding Khalil where it chooses it,” wrote lawyers. “In addition, factual considerations advise against the transfer of Khalil to Elizabeth. Simply, the installation is too capable.”
People meet for a protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil before a federal courthouse in Newark, New Jersey, March 28, 2025. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)
Khalil, a legal permanent resident, was arrested in March outside his apartment at Columbia University. An immigration judge found him removable on the basis of a service note from the Secretary of State Marco Rubio who said that Khalil’s anti-Israeli activism on campus was against the interests of the United States foreign policy. Rubio has cited a rarely used provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to justify its conclusion.
The case of Khalil attracted an enormous attention from the defenders of the first amendment, who argued that the government frightened freedom of expression by revoking the green map of a non-citizen who opposed in a frank and aggressively to the stairs with Iran.
Justice Michael Farbiarz, appointed by Biden, rejected Khalil’s initial request to release him from detention as he continued to fight his withdrawal from the country before the Federal Court.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio composed an editorial of the Wall Street Journal exposing the emphasis put by the Ministry on American relations with the nations of the Western hemisphere. (AP photo / Evan VUCCI)
Farbiarz agreed with Khalil and his supporters that Rubio’s justification to revoke Khalil’s green map was probably unconstitutional. But the judge noted that the Trump administration also cited a second reason for Khalil’s dismissal which was not tried: that Khalil filed an incomplete green card request.
The Trump administration allegedly allegedly allegedly the advocacy of Khalil rushing to the challenge of foreign policy and anti -Semitism, the allegedly fraudulent demand from Khalil was a grounds for dismissal.
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Khalil, who was born in Syria but has Algerian citizenship, left the government request form that he was a member of the disinvestment of apartheid from Columbia University, and he did not disclose other places where he worked, including the United Nations DHS for Palestinian refugees in 2023, according to the DHS.
The DHS allegedly alleged that Khalil “had obtained his legal status by” fraud or by deliberately denouncing an important fact “,” in violation of immigration laws.
