The judges are moving Mahmoud Khalil’s immigration case in New Jersey: NPR

The student of Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil (R), speaks to the press during a press conference that was organized by Propalestinian demonstrators in June 2024.

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A federal judge in New York transferred an immigration application submitted by the Columbia University Petition, Mahmoud Khalil to New Jersey.

The decision on Wednesday offers a compromise in the Bellwether case, while Khalil’s lawyers and the Trump administration argue about whether Khalil should have been arrested by immigration authorities at all.

Khalil, a lawful constant resident, has been taking place in an immigration authority in Louisiana for over a week. The lawyers of the Trump administration wanted to move his case to Louisiana, where it is held and where appeals will probably end in a more conservative court.

But Khalil’s lawyers tried to move the case to New York, where he lives and was first arrested. Instead, New York judge Jesse Furman granted the transfer to New Jersey, where Khalil was briefly recorded in the Elizabeth Contract Hafts Center, while his lawyers submitted a petition in which he questioned his arrest from Foreign Minister Marco Rubio.

“In view of the undisputed fact that Khalil was arrested in the district of New Jersey in the district of New Jersey at the time of his lawyer, this Court is missing for most, if not all Khalil claims,” ​​said Furman in his decision. He added that the court in New Jersey had to decide on the various topics in Khalils Petition, including the question of whether it should be released from the Louisiana Hard Center.

In his decision, Furman stated his previous command to prevent the government from deporting Khalil while his case was playing.

Khalil’s arrest was regarded as a test case in the efforts of President Trump, to increase the deportations and to deprive legal protection against the priorities of the administration. Khalil, who was born in Syria, but is a Palestinian descent, was one of the pro-Palestinian students who negotiated on behalf of the demonstrators on campus who urged Columbia University to separate themselves from Israel because of his war in Gaza.

The lawyers of Khalil, which include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ask federal courts to explain the detention of Khalil by the Trump government, and he should return to New York, where his 8-month pregnant US citizen dwelling lives.

“This is just the beginning, but it’s a moment to celebrate,” said Brett Max Kaufman, a manager at the ACLU, in an explanation. “The judgment of the court sends a critical message to the courts across the country, which in the coming days in which the judiciary is not allowed to shy away from its constitutional role, are certainly opposed to similar challenges.”

Officials have defended the arrest and doubled a little-known determination of the Immigration Act, which prompted the state’s discretion secretion to deport non-state citizens if the civil servants have “adequate view that (their) presence or activities in the United States have potentially serious political consequences for the United States”.

“We invited and allowed the student to get into the country, and he stuck himself in the middle of the process of the fundamentally pro-Palestinian activity,” said the deputy secretary of the deputy secretary, Troy Edgar, with NPR. “And at this point in time, the Foreign Minister can check his visa process at any time and revoke it.”

The lawyers of Khalil have asked for it to be released while the legal dispute continues so that a judge prohibits his deportation for foreign policy reasons, during this case, and that a judge is negotiating the government of the arrest, imprisonment and removal of non -citizens who behave in the reports, in the reports, which can be followed in the reports.