The verdict of the Mahmoud Khalil case was crucial as several international students were detained by ICE after Khalil and are now waiting to be deported. An immigration judge, Jamee E Comans, on Friday ruled that Khalil can be deported as his presence in the US posed "potentially serious foreign policy consequences". The judge said the government established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable.
His lawyers said he would not be deported immediately as they would appeal the verdict. Previously, federal judges in New York and New Jersey ordered the government not to deport Khalil while his case remains in court.
Tuft University doctoral student from Turkey Rumeysa Ozturkl who was detained by immigration officials near her Massachussets home has been demanding her release. She has filed an updated account of how she was surrounded by ICE officials who grabbed her phone.
Rumeysa's case is like Khalil's, though Khalil is a US citizen through his marriage to a US citizen, Dr Noorr Abdallah who is going to be a mother next month.
The petition to release her was filed in a Boston court and then it was moved top Vermont, which will be heard on Monday.
Ozturk was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in the campus newspaper, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the university’s response to student activists demanding that Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with ties to Israel.
Good riddance: Trump admin reacts to Mahmoud Khalil order
DHS secretary Kristi Noem said it will be 'good riddance' once Khalil is deported. "Mahmoud Khalil hates the United States and what we stand for—so his removal should come as welcome news," Noem posted.
"It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America. When you advocate for violence, glorify and support terrorists that relish the killing of Americans, and harass Jews, that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country," Noem posted.
What Mahmoud Khalil said after the ruling
"I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness. Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process. This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family. I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months," Khalil said.
His lawyers said he would not be deported immediately as they would appeal the verdict. Previously, federal judges in New York and New Jersey ordered the government not to deport Khalil while his case remains in court.
Tuft University doctoral student from Turkey Rumeysa Ozturkl who was detained by immigration officials near her Massachussets home has been demanding her release. She has filed an updated account of how she was surrounded by ICE officials who grabbed her phone.
Rumeysa's case is like Khalil's, though Khalil is a US citizen through his marriage to a US citizen, Dr Noorr Abdallah who is going to be a mother next month.
The petition to release her was filed in a Boston court and then it was moved top Vermont, which will be heard on Monday.
Ozturk was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in the campus newspaper, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the university’s response to student activists demanding that Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with ties to Israel.
Good riddance: Trump admin reacts to Mahmoud Khalil order
DHS secretary Kristi Noem said it will be 'good riddance' once Khalil is deported. "Mahmoud Khalil hates the United States and what we stand for—so his removal should come as welcome news," Noem posted.
"It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America. When you advocate for violence, glorify and support terrorists that relish the killing of Americans, and harass Jews, that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country," Noem posted.
What Mahmoud Khalil said after the ruling
"I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness. Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process. This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family. I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months," Khalil said.
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