Attorneys for erstwhile Columbia University postgraduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil are acceptable to instrumentality connected the Trump medication successful a New Jersey courtroom Friday arsenic the president's squad fights to deport the anti-Israel activist.
There volition beryllium a proceeding successful national tribunal successful Newark, New Jersey, astatine 10 a.m. earlier Judge Michael E. Farbiarz. New York Judge Jesse Furman transferred the lawsuit to New Jersey, wherever Khalil was successful custody erstwhile his attorneys filed their archetypal writ of habeas corpus challenging his detention.
Khalil has since been moved to Louisiana, though, wherever the Trump medication wants the lawsuit to play out.
Khalil, who holds ineligible imperishable nonmigratory presumption successful the U.S., came nether the administration's wrath for his alleged enactment of Hamas terrorists successful the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2022 onslaught connected Israel. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Khalil "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated violent organization."
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Columbia University pupil Mahmoud Khalil talks to the property during a property briefing organized by pro-Palestinian protesters who acceptable up a caller encampment astatine Columbia University's Morningside Heights field connected Friday evening successful New York City connected June 1, 2024. (Getty Images)
"We volition beryllium revoking the visas and/or greenish cards of Hamas supporters successful America truthful they tin beryllium deported," Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote successful a station connected X earlier this month.
The DHS alleged successful a Sunday filing successful the U.S. District Court of New Jersey that Khalil willfully failed to disclose his employment with the Syrian bureau successful the British Embassy successful Beirut erstwhile helium applied for imperishable U.S. residency.
Federal officials alleged that Khalil was "inadmissible astatine the clip of his adjustment" due to the fact that of "fraud oregon willful misrepresentation of worldly fact" successful his presumption application.
The bureau besides accused Khalil of failing to disclose his enactment with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and rank successful Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
"It is black-letter instrumentality that misrepresentations successful this discourse are not protected speech," the filing said. "Thus, Khalil’s First Amendment allegations are a reddish herring."

"Win Without War Banner" extracurricular the White House connected March 26, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. The radical is calling connected President Trump to escaped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian refugee whose greenish paper was revoked implicit his engagement successful demonstrations astatine Columbia University. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Win Without War)
Marc Van Der Hout, 1 of Khalil’s lawyers, and Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla, released statements successful a bid of Instagram posts. They characterized Khalil arsenic a "political captive detained astatine an ICE installation successful Louisiana."
Khalil's lawyers person argued that his enactment for Palestinians is protected by escaped code and that the administration's deportation efforts are an effort to forestall his "current and aboriginal speech" and to deter others from doing the same.
"The Policy, including as-applied to Mr. Khalil, does not springiness the due announcement to anyone residing successful the state which of their otherwise-lawful speech, opinions, beliefs, oregon advocacy volition effect successful the authorities targeting them for detention and removal, and it provides authorities officials with unfettered discretion to people disfavored speech," the lawyers wrote.
His lawyers besides noted that the medication does not specify who qualifies arsenic a "Hamas supporter." They accidental that determination is nary clarity connected Khalil's activities that are "aligned to Hamas."

Protesters rally against the apprehension of erstwhile Columbia postgraduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil successful New York City connected Monday, March 10, 2025. Khalil was 1 of the main pupil organizers of the pupil encampment past twelvemonth astatine Columbia University. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)
A national justice successful the Southern District of New York blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Khalil connected March 10.
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On March 18, Khalil wrote: "In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials indispensable unite to support the close to protestation for Palestine. At involvement are not conscionable our voices, but the cardinal civilian liberties of all. Knowing afloat that this infinitesimal transcends my idiosyncratic circumstances, I anticipation nevertheless to beryllium escaped to witnesser the commencement of my first-born child."
Khalil, a autochthonal of Syria and national of Algeria, entered the U.S. connected a pupil visa successful 2022 and aboriginal filed to go a imperishable nonmigratory successful 2024.
He is the archetypal people successful the Trump administration's crusade to revoke pupil visas for participating successful protests.
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Khalil’s apprehension comes aft President Donald Trump issued a Jan. 29 enforcement bid titled "Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism" which mandates colleges "report activities by alien students and staff" connected the grounds of antisemitism.
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The anti-Israel protests wreaked havoc connected assemblage campuses pursuing the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, starring to Trump's run committedness to revoke foreigners' pupil visas.
"To each the nonmigratory aliens who joined successful the pro-jihadist protests, we enactment you connected notice: travel 2025, we volition find you, and we volition deport you," Trump is quoted successful a information expanse issued by the White House. "I volition besides rapidly cancel the pupil visas of each Hamas sympathizers connected assemblage campuses, which person been infested with radicalism similar ne'er before."

Protesters rally against the apprehension of erstwhile Columbia postgraduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil successful New York City connected Monday, March 10, 2025. Khalil was 1 of the main pupil organizers of the pupil encampment past twelvemonth astatine Columbia University. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)
DHS and ICE did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
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Khalil is represented by Amy Greer from Dratel & Lewis, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Alina Das, co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic astatine New York University School of Law. Fox News Digital has reached retired for comment.
Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.
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