Gina, Los Angeles (AFP) – Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released on Friday from the detention of federal immigration, was released 104 days after the judge’s decision after he became a symbol of President Donald Trump’s participation in the campus protests.
A graduate student at the former Columbia University left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday. He is expected to go to New York to collect him with his American citizen wife and his baby, born during the arrest of Khalil.
“He has prevailed, but it’s very late,” he said outside the facility. “This should not take three months.”
The Trump administration is seeking to deport Khalil over his role in pro -Palestinians protests. He was arrested on March 8 in his apartment building in Manhattan.
Khalil was released after the American boycott judge, Michael Vareparars, would be “very unusual” for the government to continue to detain a US legal resident who was unlikely to flee and have not been accused of any violence.
“The petition is not the risk of flying, and the evidence provided is that it is not a threat to society,” he said. “The period, complete stopping.”
During an hour -to -phone hearing, the New Jersey judge said that the government “is clearly not met” the standards of detention.
The government made a notification on Friday evening that it was resumes the release of Khalil.
The Ministry of Internal Security said in a publication on the social platform X that on the same day, Farabiers ordered the release of Khalil, which was deprived of the immigration judge in Louisiana of bonds and his “order to remove him.” Judge Jamie Kuman’s decision, who is located in a court in the same detention facility, was taken by Khalil.
“The immigration judge, not the provincial judge, has the authority to determine whether Mr. Khalil should be released or detention.”
Khalil was the first person to be arrested under Trump’s campaign for students who joined the campus protests against the devastating war of Israel in Gaza. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Khalil should be expelled from the country because his continuous presence may harm US foreign policy.
The Trump administration has argued that non -employees who participate in such demonstrations must be deported because they consider their views hostile to Semitism. The demonstrators and civil rights groups say that the administration mixes anti -Semitism while criticizing Israel for the silence of the opposition.
Farapiers ruled that the government could not deport Khalil on the basis of its allegations that his presence may undermine foreign policy. But the judge gave the administration a deadline to continue following a possible deportation based on allegations that he had lied to the request of his green card, and he is accused of Khalil’s charge.
Graduate Student on International Affairs is not accused of violating any laws during the protests in Colombia. He served as a negotiator and a spokesman for the activists, the student and was not among the demonstrators who were arrested, but his emergence in news coverage and preparedness to speak publicly made it a target for critics.
On Friday, the judge agreed with Khalil’s lawyers that the protester was prevented from exercising freedom of expression and the rights of legal procedures, although there is no clear reason for his continued arrest. The judge noticed that Khalil is now a public figure.
Khalil said on Friday that no person should be detained because of his protest against the Israeli war in Gaza. He said that his time in the attachment of Gina, Louisiana, showed him “a different fact from this country that is supposed to release human rights, freedom and justice.”
“Whether you are an American citizen, a migrant, or just a person on this land, it does not mean that you are less than a human being,” he said, adding that “justice will prevail, regardless of what this administration may try to photograph” about immigrants.
Khalil had to surrender his passport and could not travel internationally, but he would recover his green card and get official documents that allow limited travel inside the country, including New York and Michigan to visit the family, New Jersey, Louisiana for the appearances of the court and Washington to pressure the conference.
In a statement after the judge’s ruling, Khalil’s wife, Dr. Nour Abdel -Ala, said that she can finally “breathe a sigh of relief” after her three husband was detained.
She said: “We know that this ruling does not begin to address the injustice brought by the Trump administration to our family, and many others.” “But we celebrate today that Mahmoud returns to New York to reunite them with our small family.”
The judge’s decision comes after many other scholars who targeted their activity were released from reservation, including another former Palestinian student in Colombia, Mohsen Mahdawi; Student of Tafs University, Rumeysa Oztuk; Georgetown University researcher, Badar Khan Syrian.
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Marcelo from New York. Jennifer Pigz contributed from New York.