On Friday, an American immigration judge decided that the administration of President Donald Trump could go ahead in the case of the expulsion of the student at Columbia University and the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was arrested in New York last month.
J. Jimmy Kumanis of the Luisiana Immigration Court said that he did not have the power to make a decision linked to Khalil, which was taken by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last month, under the law of immigration and citizenship of 1952.
Rubio decided that Khalil should be expelled because his presence in the United States has “potential consequences for foreign policy”. The judge’s decision is not the final declaration on the question of Khalil’s expulsion.
In a distinct case of the New Jersey Federal Court, the judge of the American partial court, Michael Vareparars, arrested the expulsion when he was examined by the assertion of Khalil according to which his arrest on the eighth March is a violation of the first amendment to the American Constitution which guarantees freedom of expression.
Khalil was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, holding Algerian citizenship and obtained permanent residence in the United States legally last year.
Khalil is one of the eminent figures of the protest movement of Pro -Palestinian students who rocked the campus of Columbia University in New York. As for Khalil’s wife, Nour Abdullah, she is an American citizen.
Khalil’s case is a strong Trump’s effort test to legally expel Pro -Palestinian students in the United States and who have not been charged, like Khalil, any accusation.
Broad external authority
The US administration said Khalil and other foreign students participating in demonstrations supporting the Palestinians are harmful to the interests of American foreign policy, citing an element of the Immigration and Nationality Act gives the Minister of Foreign Affairs a large authority to determine when he can expel a foreign citizen.
The commander said that the Congress granted the Minister of Foreign Affairs in this law “only one decision” in a report.
The judge’s decision reached after a 90 -minute hearing held in a court inside a penitentiary complex for immigrants surrounded by a double barbed closure, and is led by government entrepreneurs in the private sector of the Louisiana campaign.
Khalil, 30, described himself as a political prisoner. Khalil was arrested in the residential building of the University of Colombia and was transferred to the Louisiana prison.
Khalil’s lawyers said that the Trump administration had targeted it because of its expression of its opinion, a right guaranteed by the first amendment to the American Constitution and includes the right to criticize the American foreign policy.
“Mahmoud was subject to the game of legal procedures due and a blatant violation of its right to a fair hearing and the use of the Immigration Act to suppress the opposition … The case has not yet ended, and our battle continues,” said his lawyer, Mark Van der Hot, in a statement after the hearing.
The Ministry of Justice operates the system of American immigration courts and appoints its judges in isolation of the government.
The Trump administration presented a two -page message as proof that Khalil should be expelled. Rubio wrote in the letter he was to be expelled for his role in “anti-semititic demonstrations and public order activities that improve the existence of a hostile climate for Jewish students in the United States”.
In the letter Khalil, Rubio did not corne Khalil to violate a law, but he said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had the right to cancel the legal status of any immigrant even if his convictions, prayers and declarations were “legal”.
Khalil said that criticism of the American government’s support for the Israeli military occupation in the Palestinian territories is confused with bad anti-semitism.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the ministry does not comment on the cases in which the courts were considering.
In the case before Farabarars, Khalil stabs him as he describes the inadmissibility of his arrest, his detention and his transfer to the Louisiana prison, far from his family and his lawyer in New York around 1930 km.