The student Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia University can continue to contest the legality of his arrest by the immigration authorities in New Jersey instead of the Louisiana, where he is detained, a judge of the United States decided on Tuesday.
The decision of the district judge Michael Farbie to Newark, New Jersey, means that any appeals in the case of the Palestinian activist will be heard by the 3rd Court of the Appeals of the United States, which has a 6-6 division among the active judges appointed by the Republican presidents and democrats. The 5th Court of Appeal of the United States, the most conservative court of appeal in the country, was private.
The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a commentary request.
Khalil’s case is seen as a test of the efforts of republican president Donald Trump to expel Pro-Palestinos activists who have not been accused of any crime. His lawyers say that Trump’s administration has been improperly episode to his political visions and the importance in students’ protests.
On the other hand, the Trump government declared that it had revoked the visas of hundreds of foreign students who would participate in the events that swept the university campuses, to protest against military support of the United States in Israel.
The government states that Khalil, 30 years old and other international students are damaging the interests of the United States foreign policy.
The jurisdictional controversy was built because Khalil, a legal resident who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, spent several hours in a detention center in New Jersey after his arrest on March 8 in nearby Manhattan.
Khalil’s defense lawyers said that this made New Jersey a forum suitable to challenge the government’s efforts to expel it in a separate case in the immigration court. However, government lawyers claimed that such cases should be brought to any district where the prisoner is maintained.
In a 67 -page decision, Farbie wrote that there was an exception to the general rule that required that the petitions of Habeas Corpus were presented in the confinement district in cases where this place was unknown.
Farbierz wrote that the failure to apply this exception would mean that Khalil “would not have been able to resort to any Habes Corpus court. Neither Louisiana, New York or New Jersey. Nor elsewhere.”
Khalil’s lawyers said that immediately after knowing that he was brought to New Jersey, the authorities reported having been transferred to Louisiana.
Khalil’s lawyers also asked Farbie to free him from the prison while the case takes place, in part so that he can be with his wife, Noor Abdalla, at the birth of his first child. Abdalla is an American citizen.
The date scheduled for the delivery of Abdalla is April 28, according to a letter from his doctor deposit in court.
Source: Terra
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