{"id":15987,"date":"2025-03-28T18:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mahmoud-khalils-attorneys-fighting-to-keep-the-case-in-new-jersey-heres-what-happened-in-court\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:29:38","slug":"mahmoud-khalils-attorneys-fighting-to-keep-the-case-in-new-jersey-heres-what-happened-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mahmoud-khalils-attorneys-fighting-to-keep-the-case-in-new-jersey-heres-what-happened-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Khalil&#8217;s attorneys fighting to keep the case in New Jersey. Here&#8217;s what happened in court."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mahmoud-khalil-first-public-statement-feds-claim-louisiana-bedbug-infestation-overcrowding\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">being held in an immigration detention center<\/a><\/span> in Louisiana, are fighting to have the case heard in New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khalil remains in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, as President Trump&#8217;s administration seeks to deport him.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern District of New York ruled last week the case\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/mahmoud-khalils-case-should-be-heard-in-new-jersey\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">should be heard in New Jersey<\/a><\/span>, where Khalil was detained when his attorneys filed a petition on his behalf. The federal government then filed a motion to keep him in custody in Louisiana and have the case proceed from there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At a hearing Friday at a courthouse in Newark about where the case will be held, the judge did not issue a ruling but said he would respond quickly. He also said he would not rule on the issue of bail until after the jurisdiction is determined.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a case where the United States government has created a policy targeting Palestinian activists, and specifically Mahmoud Khalil, for arrest, detention and potential removal, because the United States government disagrees with his constitutionally protected right to dissent from U.S. foreign policy,&#8221; Khalil&#8217;s attorney, Baher Azmy, told reporters after the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/times-square-mahmoud-khalil-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">demonstrators gathered outside the courthouse<\/a><\/span>, saying they are less concerned about the location of the case and more that Khalil remains in custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s at stake right now in the U.S. is everybody&#8217;s right to free speech. We need to be clear that this is a crackdown on everyone, not just the Palestine movement,&#8221; one persons said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mahmoud Khalil is not alone, we are here and we will not be silent. We demand his release, we demand an end to the targeting of activists,&#8221; said another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Taken away from me in the middle of the night&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The 30-year-old father-to-be   was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/ice-arrest-mahmoud-khalil-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">arrested earlier this month<\/a><\/span> when ICE agents <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">came to his university-owned apartment building<\/a><\/span> in Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My husband was taken away from me in the middle of the night,&#8221; his wife, Noor Abdalla,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/noor-abdalla-on-the-arrest-of-her-husband-mahmoud-khalil-i-was-terrified\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">told CBS News Sunday Morning<\/a><\/span>. &#8220;It was one of the most terrifying times of my life. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever experienced anything scarier than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khalil is a Palestinian born in Syria and has a\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/green-card-holders-rights-mahmoud-khalil-case\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">green card<\/a><\/span>, or legal permanent residency. He is not charged with any crimes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After he was taken into custody, the government said it was invoking a rarely used section of U.S. immigration law to justify his detention and possible deportation. The law allows the secretary of state to subject noncitizens to deportation if their actions threaten foreign policy interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>ICE arrests stretch from Columbia to other universities<\/h2>\n<p>Khalil was a prominent figure during last year&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/columbia-university-protest-expulsions-suspension\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">pro-Palestinian encampment on Columbia&#8217;s main lawn<\/a><\/span> in Morningside Heights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was not among the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/columbia-university-protests-nypd-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">hundreds of people arrested during the protests<\/a><\/span>, but the White House alleges his <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-mahmoud-khalil-ice-columbia-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">actions were in support of Hamas<\/a><\/span>, a U.S.-designated terror group. CBS News has not found evidence that Khalil has said he supports Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a court filing earlier this week, the government also said he\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mahmoud-khalil-trump-administration-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">failed to disclose some of his work history<\/a><\/span> on his immigration paperwork, including an internship with the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, the Syria office of the British embassy in Beruit and a group known as Columbia University Apartheid Divest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks since Khalil&#8217;s arrest, other students and faculty at Cornell, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/georgetown-university-researcher-detained-by-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Georgetown<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rasha-alawieh-brown-university-doctor-deportation-lebanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Brown<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/tufts-university-graduate-student-somerville-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Tufts universities<\/a><\/span> have also been targeted by immigration officials because they attended demonstrations or publicly expressed support for Palestinians. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/marco-rubio-mahmoud-khalil-arrest-face-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">300 student visas have been revoked<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/Doug-Williams\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Doug Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__image\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/Doug-Williams\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n              <span class=\"img \"><img alt=\"0029-doug-williams-circle-button-1000x1000.png \" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/09\/10\/56bd954b-8651-44c1-b326-475dc72c01f1\/thumbnail\/80x80\/f1bf5196d57cbdbd746ad9756d258f74\/0029-doug-williams-circle-button-1000x1000.png?v=95354023eeb6141c58c08d9a5716f291 1x\"\/><\/span><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Doug Williams has been reporting and anchoring in the Tri-State Area since 2013.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mahmoud-khalil-case-in-newark-court\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist being held in an immigration detention center in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2672,3782],"class_list":["post-15987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-columbia-university","tag-newark"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mahmoud Khalil&#039;s attorneys fighting to keep the case in New Jersey. 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