The pro -activist activist, Mahmoud Khalil, can be deported Courts News

A immigration judge in the United States spent that the issue of deportation against Mahmoud Khalil could move forward, a month after the graduate student at Columbia University was detained because of his participation in Protests supporting Palestine.

Judge Jami Kumsan took the torque on Friday at the end of a two -hour hearing in the US state of Louisiana, saying that the government “demonstrated clear and convincing evidence that it can be removed.”

Khaalil – a permanent resident in the United States – can appeal the resolution.

One of his lawyers, Mark van der Hot, said in a statement after the hearing.

“This has not ended yet, and our battle continued,” he added.

The Khalil case has drawn wide scrutiny Right defenders accuse President Donald Trump’s administration breaks the freedom of expression and pro -effective activity under the guise of anti -anti -Semitism.

The administration is trying to deport Khalil under the provision of a migration law that rarely gives the Foreign Minister the authority to remove any non -citizen who considers his presence in the United States “severe consequences for foreign policy.”

The government did not accuse Khalil of committing a crime.

In a two -page letter submitted to the court and lawyers of Khalil, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that the 30 -year -old should be removed for his role in “anti -Semitic protests and sabotage activities, which enhances an anti -Jewish students in the United States.”

Rubio’s message was not accused of violating any laws, but he said that his ministry could cancel the legal status of migrants even when their beliefs, associations, or statements are “legal otherwise.”

Supporters of Khalil says he participated in it Peaceful protests Against the relations of the University of Colombia with the Israeli army as part of the wave of demonstrations on the campus that swept the country last year in the Israeli war.

Baher Azmi, the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and another from Khalil’s lawyer, told reporters on Thursday that Rubio’s message “is a kind of Soviet smoke in the Soviet style, which are empty and irrigated parts.”

Louisiana on Friday, Shihab Ratansi said on Friday.

“He said that there is nothing more important than due legal procedures and basic fairness (and) none of these principles was present” in his case, according to Ratansi.

Khalil has been detained by the government since March 8, when he was arrested late at night by immigration enforcement agents in front of his pregnant wife, an American citizen.

Then he was transferred to two different facilities without notifying his family or lawyers.

In a statement he read during a press conference outside the court in Louisiana on Friday afternoon, Khalil’s support team said that the judge’s referee was “unaware as worrying.”

The team said: “Despite the government’s failure to prove that Mahmoud broke any law, the court decided that the permanent legal population can cancel their status to the pro -effective call.”

“This is a flagrant violation of the first amendment (the American constitution) and a dangerous predecessor for anyone who believes in freedom of expression and political expression.”

In another statement read by activists, Nour Abdullah, Khalil’s wifeThe court’s decision said it was a “devastating blow.”

“Anyone should not be considered removal from his home to speak publicly against the killing of Palestinian families, doctors and journalists.” The Gaza war in Israel.

Kuman’s, Louisiana immigration judge, gave Khalil’s legal team until April 23 to search for a concession. But the judge’s decision is not the final statement about whether Khalil will be deported.

In a separate case in the New Jersey Federal Court, the American boycott judge, Michael Farbarars, prevented the deportation while he considered Khalil’s claim that his detention had ended in violating the protection of the first amendment to the American constitution for freedom of expression.

Over the past few weeks, US immigration authorities have also taken strict measures International students Those who participated in the protests supporting the Palestinians or spoke in defense of the Palestinians in Gaza.