The lawyers of the Agitator of the University of Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, argued that the Nazis can “express their beliefs” in the United States while their client faces deportation, and dramatically warned that “anyone could be the following.”
Khalil’s lawyer, Marc van der Hout, started the federals for a “lack of due process” after a decision in the Louisian immigration court on Friday that favored the government’s attempt to start the permanent resident born in Syria outside the country on its anti-Israel activism at the Ivy League campus.
“Our Constitution allows people to say what they think,” said Van Der Hout at a virtual press conference.
“The Nazis in this country, the Supreme Court has sustained, can demonstrate, they can express their beliefs, but not Mahmoud Khalil. The Ku Klux Klan can leave and express their beliefs, but not Mahmoud Khalil.
“We are going to fight for your right to talk about what is happening in the Middle East and talk against what the United States is doing.”
Judge Jamee Comans ruled the two -hour hearing that the Government had “established for clear and convincing evidence that [Khalil] It is removable ”, a decision, Rusfouser’s legal squad states that he made the apparent processing of the Divisive Court.
Khalil-a 30-year-old Palestinian who has a 30-year-old green card, born in Syria, was arrested by immigration and customs compliance agents from the United States in his Manhattan apartment financed by Columbia when a repression marches at the Trumpuses University.
A day later, the head of the student visit, who is also a citizen of Algeria, was sent to an ice detention center in Jena, Louisiana, thousands of miles away from his pregnant wife, who is an American citizen.
Since then, his lawyers have fought a judicial battle against the Trump administration, which seeks to deport Khalil about his role in disruptive and times, violent protests at the Elite school, where he received his postgraduate degree in December.
The Palestinian activist group, Columbia Apartheid United United, which Khalil serves as a spokesman, is responsible for the unbridled acquisition in the Hamilton Hall of Columbia last April.
His lawyers have been fighting the sentence both in the Immigration Court and in the Federal Court of New Jersey, where there was a request for habeas corpus for his release with the argument that the seizure violated the first amendment allegedly free to swell government activities.
ICE and the Department of National Security invoked a dark law that allows a Secretary of State to deport non -citizens who potentially threaten the foreign policy of the United States.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, presented a two -page memorandum on Wednesday arguing that the presence of Khalil Socava the “policy of the United States to combat anti -Semitism” and its participation in “anti -Semitic protests” gives it a hostile environment in the country.
The Trump administration authority also cited to deport non -citizens whose presence harms the interests of the foreign policy of the United States.
Khalil’s lawyers said that Friday’s ruling has “absolutely nothing to do with foreign policy,” and added that the federals have little evidence against the demonstrator and are only attacking him for expressing their beliefs.
“You cannot deport some of the country for participating in constitutionally protected freedom of expression,” said Johnny Sinodis, another lawyer from the Khalil legal team, during Friday’s press conference.
“For now, today’s hearing and the judge’s finding establish a really dangerous precedent. If this can stand up, anyone can be next. This line of thought and this type of government policy are the steps that we all have citizens and I think that being citizens and I think and I the citizens and I think and I the citizens and I think and I think.
The ruling won to see Khalil deported immediately, with his lawyers still capable of fighting their case before a final determination is made.
His team said that additional evidence and requests will be presented before April 23.