Mahmoud Khalil, deportation and immigration judge
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Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been allowed to hold his 1-month-old son for the first time after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to keep the father and infant separated by a plexiglass divider.
The Palestinian rights advocate spoke at length as part of a 10-hour hearing Thursday as the U.S. attempts to deport him. A ruling in his case was not made.
Lawyers seek release of Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, arguing that his arrest was illegal. He was back in court.
The Columbia graduate student was supposed to attend the graduation celebration. Instead, he is in immigration detention, caught up in Trump’s crackdown on foreign students.
Khalil’s representatives said that ICE’s refusal stood in contrast to the agency’s directives encouraging contact visits and preserving parental rights.