by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
A judge in federal court in New York ruled today that the Trump Administration, who arrested Mahmoud Khalil over this past weekend with no warrant, and who was being detained in Louisiana with no contact allowed between him and his attorneys and his wife who is 8 months pregnant and is a U.S. Citizen, had to allow Khalil access to his attorneys so he could appear in court.
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Prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for now following a procedural hearing in New York, days after he was arrested by federal officials at his Columbia University residence in an attempt by the Trump administration to deport him.
Khalil was arrested and detained on Saturday over his role in protests against the Israel-Hamas war at Columbia University last spring. His green card was revoked by the Trump administration, his lawyer said, but New York federal judge Jesse Furman blocked any immediate effort to deport Khalil until his attorneys and the federal government appear in court.
In court Wednesday, Furman ordered that Khalil be allowed at least one call Wednesday and one Thursday with his counsel as they prepare to meet briefing deadlines, after his attorneys asked the court to help them gain better access to their client.
“We literally have not been able to confer with our client once since he was taken off the streets of New York City,” Ramzi Kassem, an attorney for Khalil, said. (Source.)
Meanwhile, protests have erupted in New York over Khalil’s arrest, and many Jews are also among the protesters. At least a “dozen” protesters were allegedly handcuffed by police earlier today, but it is not clear yet at the time of this writing if they were actually charged or detained.
Some news reports are claiming that the reason why Khalil was taken from New York to be detained in Louisiana is because he was not charged with any crime, and therefore they did not have to comply with Khalil’s attorney who filed a habeas corpus, because it lacked jurisdiction.
Did the Trump Administration Make a Huge Mistake by not Knowing Mahmoud Khalil was a Legal Resident of the U.S.?
While many media sources have now stated the same thing that I published when this story broke, which is that this is a “test case” for the Trump Administration on deporting students who protest against the Israeli government, it would appear that Trump’s Zionist officials did not even know that this man was no longer a student, and was not even in the U.S. on a student visa anymore.
And they also seem to be completely ignorant of the differences between visas and Green Cards, which represent permanent residents in the U.S. who no longer need visas.
Fox News, just a short while ago as I began to write this article and should know better by now with everything that has come out in the news the past few days, deliberately LIED to the American people by bringing in “legal experts” on to their show who stated incorrectly that Khalil’s “visa as a foreign student” had been revoked, and that the “law is on Trump’s side.”
Well, how can a “legal expert” claim that the law is on the side of Trump if they misrepresent the facts of the case?
As was originally reported by Khalil’s attorney in her report to the media after Khalil was arrested, she informed the ICE officials that Khalil was a holder of a Green Card, not a student visa. They then allegedly told her that they were revoking that too, and hung up on her.
But there is huge difference between a student visa and a Green Card issued to permanent residents.
Green Cards are difficult to obtain (I went through the entire process after I married a Filipino woman from the Philippines in my first marriage), and Khalil was reportedly able to obtain one last year due to his marriage to a U.S. Citizen, who was also threatened with arrest last weekend.
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