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Nearly 40 days have passed since activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested without charge in front of his pregnant wife and sending him to the immigration detention facility, but his lawyer says he is still “very strong.”

Columbia’s graduate student was the first among many pro -campus activists on campus detained by American migration and customs (ICE) during the era of President Donald Trump’s administration.

On Friday, the United States immigration judge gave the green light to move forward in the deportation case against Khalil. But the activist’s lawyer, Ishha Bahandari, says the battle has not ended.

“He is determined to fight this issue until the end and exchange the principle that he should not be in a detention center for his legal and constitutionally protected speech,” said Bhandari of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU. As it happens Host Nil Köksal.

The United States was martyred 1952 a law to deport pro -female activists

Khalil was born in the Palestinian Refugee camp in Syria. He came to the United States with a student visa in 2022, and became a permanent resident in the United States last year. His wife, Nour Abdel -Ala, an American citizen.

He completed a master’s degree in Public Administration in December 2024 and was appointed for graduation in May. But these plans were disrupted when the ice officers came to his home in his university’s apartment in New York City on March 8 and arrested him.

He was held for the first time in New Jersey, then he was sent to a detention center for immigration owned, especially in Louisiana, where he remained since then.

He was not accused of any crimes. Instead, his detention depends on his prominent role in the protests of Colombia’s students against the military campaign of Israel in Gaza.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said last month that Khalil should be removed from the United States because his presence in the United States “has severe consequences in dangerous foreign policy,” noting the 1952 law called the Immigration and Nationality Law.

In a two -page letter submitted to the court and the lawyers of Khalil, who participated with the correspondents, Rubio wrote that Khalil should be removed for his role in “anti -Semitic protests and sabotage activities, which enhance an anti -Jewish students in the United States.”

Bahandari says the government has not determined the type of speech that falls under this law.

She said: “This is an worrying position, which cannot be taken, and there is no reason limited to this particular issue,” she said.

“The government can decide tomorrow that anyone who talked about war in Ukraine in a way that it has not now liked is now subject to the same law and can be arrested. They can present the same argument about climate change.”

Other activists were detained, threatened with deportation

She says Khalil got the flow of support from all over the country, giving him strength to continue.

However, she says that he should not be of his home while his first child expected, and he sent 1930 km to an facility in another state.

“Their personal circumstances are very important, but, of course, Mahmoud was not the only person who is being held behind bars at the present time to engage in a completely legal discourse,” said Bhandari.

on monday, Palestinian detained ice Mohsen Mahdawi – A friend of Khalil and his colleague in Colombia – in a Fairmont immigration office, where he was expected to hold an interview on him on putting the finishing touches on his nationality in the United States.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tuffs University in Massachusetts, was, Pharmaceutical and Celibia agents were arrested in MarchNearly a year later, he participated in the composition of an opinion article in a student paper calling on the university to get rid of companies with relations with Israel and “recognize the Palestinian genocide.”

UNESO Chung from Colombia, a Korean American who lived in the United States since she was seven years old Fighting the Trump administration’s attempts to deport it After participating in the pro -Palestinian protests.

Rubio told reporters to Companions It has canceled nearly 300 visas From “crazy people who tear things”.

“This is not an ordinary immigration application.”

“Nothing about this is normal,” she said. “This is an oversight program using the Immigration Law to achieve its goals.”

It says it is one of several tools published by the administration, including Investigation of private law firmsAnd Wrap money from universities To fall on the Trump agenda.

In Canada, a governor leader Pierre Pollyfry pledged at a modern campaign station To finish “wakes the impact on federal support for university research.”

Bhandari says that the US Civil Liberties Union requires a federal court to consider the arrest of Khalil, and the government’s use of the Immigration and Nationality Law, illegal and unconstitutional.

In a separate case in the New Jersey Federal Court, Khalil defies his arrest, detention and transfer to Louisiana.

While the Trump administration has rocked the court orders before – the last of which was from the US Supreme Court to facilitate the return of the Maryland man who was He was accidentally deported to El Salvador – Handari is still optimistic.

“We expect completely that if any court orders the release of Mrs. Ozturk, Mr. Khalil, or any other person in the current detention facility, the government will abide by that, and they must.”