Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from immigration prison

A federal judge ruled on Friday that Mahmoud Khalil, the graduate of the University of Columbia, threatened with deportation for his pro-Palestinian activism, must be released from the custody of immigration and compliance with the customs under bail.

The decision of the American district judge Michael Farbiarz represented a great victory for the defenders of immigration and freedom of expression, along with the critics of the brutal Israel War in Gaza.

Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested on ice in Louisiana for more than three months since the police arrested him in the New York City apartment who shared with his pregnant wife, an American citizen who gave birth to the first son of the couple the following month.

“After more than three months, we can finally breathe a relief and know that Mahmoud goes home with me and Deen, who should never have been separated from his father,” said Dr. Noor Abdalla, Khalil’s wife, in a statement, referring to the couple’s child son.

“We know that this ruling does not begin to address the injustices that the Trump administration has brought to our family, and many others that the government is trying to silence to speak against the ongoing genocide of Israel against the Palestinians,” Abdalla continued. “But today we are celebrating Mahmoud returning to New York to meet with our little family, and the community that has supported us since the day he was unfairly taken for speaking for Palestinian freedom.”

“The hundreds of men who left behind should not be there first,” he said. “The Trump administration is doing everything possible to dehumanize everyone here. If you are an American, immigrant or simply a person on this land it does not mean that it is less human.”

However, earlier in the day, an official of the National Security Department said the Trump administration would not give up trying to keep Khalil after bars.

“An immigration judge, not a district judge, has the authority to decide whether Mr. Khalil must be released or detained,” said the assistant secretary of the DHS, Tricia Mclaughlin, in a statement by dismissing Farbiar as “a dishonest district judge.”

The deputy director of Immigration Jamee Comons also ruled on Friday against Khalil’s asylum request and said that he could finally be deported, according to the New York Times. Khalil was born in a field of Syrian refugees of Palestinian parents and taught English before coming to the United States to study.

Another pro-Palestinian activist in a similar position, Rumya Ozturb, was successfully released from the arrest of ICE by a district judge last month, which allowed him to be free while his cases proceed in the immigration court.

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The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, tried to justify Khalil’s deportation using a dark disposition of US law that gives him the power to eliminate people in the country if their presence disturbs the foreign policy of the United States.

However, Khalil remained in ice custody in the government claims that an immigration request presented contained errors.

Farbiar ruled on Friday that alleged Khalil’s paperwork errors similarly did not need his arrest while his case continues.

Khalil’s lawyers have said that the accusation of “misrepresent”, made after their arrest on March 8, is another attempt to punish their client for exercising their rights of freedom of expression.

Rubio and others in the administration of President Donald Trump argue that the demonstrations against war in universities such as Columbia and Harvard were anti -Semitic and created an insecure atmosphere for Jewish students, and have summoned them as a reason to revoke hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to schools.

For its part, Khalil has emphasized that anti -Semitism does not take place in the movement of Palestinian rights, which includes Jewish activists.

“All Americans should be grateful that Mahmoud had the strength of defending the basic principles of the first amendment, and their search for justice for the Palestinians, against the autocratic tactics of the administration, which threaten us all,” said Baher Azmy, legal director of the Constitutional Rights Center, in a statement. The center is part of a coalition that represents Khalil.

“Ideas are not illegal, and no administration must imprison people to express opinions with which they do not agree,” added Donna Lieberman, executive director of the Union of Civil Liberties of New York, which is also part of Khalil’s legal team.