US EditionImmigration Board Denies Mahmoud Khalil’s Appeal, Bringing Activist One Step Closer to Deportation
Khalil’s lawyers said the ruling advances a removal case they call politically motivated and unconstitutional retaliation for his pro-Palestinian activism.
- The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a final removal order on Thursday against Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and former Columbia University graduate student.
- Khalil contends the administration "weaponized the immigration system" to punish his speech regarding Palestine, following his arrest last March and 104 days in an immigration jail.
- The BIA's ruling relies on the "Rubio determination" under the "foreign policy ground" of the Nationality Act, though a New Jersey federal court previously ruled this basis likely unconstitutional.
- Despite the removal order, Khalil cannot lawfully be detained or deported while his habeas corpus case proceeds in The Third Circuit, his attorneys confirmed.
- Brett Max Kaufman, senior counsel with the ACLU's Center for Democracy, said today's decision is an "important reminder of the stakes of Mahmoud's habeas case.
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Immigration board denies Mahmoud Khalil's appeal, makes deportation more likely
The Board of Immigration Appeals relies on the Department of Justice and is increasingly under the influence of the Trump administration. Khalil said the 'only thing I am guilty of is speaking out against the genocide in Palestine'
Criminalizing Dissent in a Time of War: Free Speech Coalition Urges Federal Court to Rein In Government Power to Detain Anti-War Protesters » Sons of Liberty Media
WASHINGTON, DC — As the U.S. government escalates military conflicts abroad and confronts rising anti-war resistance at home, a broad coalition of civil liberties organizations is warning that dissent itself is being treated as a threat. In asking the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the case of Mahmoud Khalil—a legal U.S. resident, Columbia University …
The Usual Far-Left Radicals March for Mahmoud Khalil Who Received a Final Removal Order
Same printed signs, same red-green alliance. Mahmoud Khalil, who has made a career of leading campus dissidents and Palestinian radicals, received his final removal order. It took a long time for only 15 million people here illegally to go. Democrats fought hard for this foreign troublemaker. whose Green Card was revoked. It does not mean he is being deported yet. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision does not enable his deportation pe…
Trump Administration Moves Closer To Deporting Mahmoud Khalil as Immigration Board Nixes Agitator's Last Ditch Plea
The Board of Immigration Appeals denied anti-Israel activist and Columbia University agitator Mahmoud Khalil's attempt to reverse the final order of removal it issued on Thursday, according to his lawyers, marking a victory for the Trump administration in its efforts to deport the Syrian native and Algerian national.The post Trump Administration Moves Closer To Deporting Mahmoud Khalil as Immigration Board Nixes Agitator's Last Ditch Plea appear…
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