The Federal Immigration agents did not have a warrant to arrest the anti -Israeli Guard Mahmood Khalil last month and defended their actions in the new court documents, saying the arrest was legal.
Khalil, one of the anti -Israel protests at Columbia University last year, who is trying to deport the Trump administration, was arrested with Homeland Security Investigation (HSI), about six weeks before its university -owned apartment in New York City, which is part of immigration and customs enforcement (ICE), which they are part of their green According to Disa,, for his green color, as his green green, they were distracted for their green green green. He was then taken to Louisiana Detention Center.
On Thursday in the New Jersey court, a lawyer revealed a lawyer for homeland security, when the agents faced Khalil on March 8 and asked him to cooperate, while he tried to verify his identity, Khalil said he would not cooperate and he was going to leave the scene, “the lawyer wrote.
Mahmud Khalil, left and protesters, right. (AP Photo/Ted Shfre, Left, Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service Getty Images, Right.)
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At that time the Homeland Security Supervisory agent “believed that there was a risk of flight and arrest was necessary,” he said.
Khalil’s lawyers disputed the government’s account of the situation and said that Khalil’s wife went to her apartment to reconstruct her green card only for agents. Khalil is a Palestinian raised in Syria and is a permanent American resident. Khalil’s lawyers argued that the Trump administration has not shown any evidence that he refused to cooperate with the agents during his arrest.
On the phone with Khalil and arrest agent on the night of arrest, Greer said that Khalil remained calm and complied with orders, even the agents failed to show a arrest warrant. His lawyers say that the video released by Khalil’s wife shows that he remained cooperative.
“Today, we now know why he never showed Mahmud to that warrant – he had no one. It is clearly another desperate attempt by the Trump administration to correct his illegal arrest and human rights defender Mahmud Khalil, who is now by a political prisoner of the United States.
Columbia University students talk to Mahmud Khalil Press, who talks to the press during a press briefing organized by Palestinian protesters, who set up a new encroachment at the Morningside Heights Campus of Columbia University on Friday evening in New York City, United States on 1 June 2024. (Through Selkuk Akar/Anadolu Getty Image)
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The Homeland Security Department had earlier stated that it conducted arrest to protect US national security and claimed that Khalil “led a nominated terrorist organization, Hamas -related activities.”
According to CNN, Khalil played a major role in protests against Israel against Israel, which shaken the Columbia University last year, and he met with university officials as Columbia University, which a group of student groups urged the university to divide the university. Khalil, who worked as a spokesperson of Colombia protesters, was not accused of crime.
An immigration judge has already ruled that Mahmood Khalil could be deported from the US for being involved in protests at Columbia University, saying that the US government fulfilled the evidence of evidence to remove them. Khalil’s lawyers are appealing for that decision.
Khalil’s lawyer Mark Van Der Heut said in a press release stated by the US Civil Liberty Union that the agents told Khalil that when he was detained, he had a arrest warrant and his lawyers learned only with the new government’s filing this week.
Van Der Hout said, “The government’s entry is surprising, and it is completely derogatory that he said in his initial filing of the arrest report to the immigration judge – and the world – that when no one was there, there was an arrest warrant.” “This is an egoistic conduct by DHS, which is needed, under the law, ending these proceedings and we hope that the immigration court will rule so much.”
Khalil met his requirements for Columbia Master’s degree in December. Born in Syria, he is the grandson of Palestinians who were forced to leave their motherland, their lawyers said in a legal filing.
His wife, who is an American citizen, gave birth to a couple’s child this week. Khalil requested a temporary release to participate in birth but Ice refused to appeals, resulting in he did not remember the incident.
Protesters of the group, peace for Jewish voice, protests inside Trump Tower in support of Mahmud Khalil, a graduate student of Colombia, in New York City on Thursday, March 13. (AP/Yuki Ivamura)
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Khalil’s case has given rise to several protests in New York City, including a collective demonstration inside the Trump Tower last month, arrested about 100 people. It is also seen by the Trump administration as a marker of efforts to detain and deport the visa holders protesting in college premises.
White House press secretary Karolin Levit defended the decision of the Trump administration to arrest Khalil first and claimed that he distributed pro-Hamas promotion flyer on the campus.
Levit told reporters on Tuesday at a press briefing in the White House, “This administration is not going to tolerate people who have killed Americans,” this administration is not to study in our country and then to side with terrorist organizations. “We have a zero-optional policy for siding with a period of terrorists.”
Fox News’ Diana Staffy, Alexis McAidams and Stephanie Price, as well as Associated Press also contributed to the report.
