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FILE PHOTO: Mahmoud Khalil speaks to members of media astir the Revolt for Rafah encampment astatine Columbia University during the ongoing struggle betwixt Israel and the Palestinian Islamist radical Hamas successful Gaza, successful New York City, U.S., June 1, 2024.
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The national justice presiding over Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit ruled that the Trump administration, for now, cannot deport oregon detain the Columbia University activistic based connected a determination by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The judge's bid volition not instrumentality effect until Friday, allowing the authorities clip to appeal.
Rubio has cited an obscure proviso of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to warrant Khalil's removal from the U.S., saying that helium poses a nationalist information risk.
Rubio had argued that the proviso allows the caput of authorities to "personally determine" whether Khalil should stay successful the country.
Khalil was a Columbia University pupil who played an progressive relation successful protests implicit the warfare successful Gaza connected the Manhattan field past year.
He was arrested by national agents successful March and has been held since, arsenic helium and his lawyers person challenged efforts to deport him.
U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz's Wednesday bid bars the authorities from detaining Khalil based connected Rubio's determination.
It besides bars the authorities from trying to region him from the United States based connected Rubio's determination.
Khalil was a Columbia University pupil who played an progressive relation successful protests connected the Manhattan field implicit the warfare successful Gaza.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has alleged that Khalil has acted to "glorify and enactment terrorists."
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