Judge says Khalil deportation order likely unconstitutional
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The Trump administration’s use of an obscure portion of immigration law to detain and attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is likely unconstitutional, according to an order issued Wednesday by a federal judge in New Jersey.
The Columbia graduate student was supposed to attend the graduation celebration. Instead, he is in immigration detention, caught up in Trump’s crackdown on foreign students.
Khalil’s argument is ‘so frivolous’ and ‘unprofessional’ that his lawyers ‘should be subject to discipline,’ one legal scholar says.
Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman on Wednesday bizarrely chose to stoke the flames by acknowledging arrested ex-grad student Mahmoud Khalil at the Ivy League school’s chaotic
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Free speech is one of the foundations of our freedom, but that's in jeopardy. Jailing students for political views endangers First Amendment protections.