ICE Refuses to Release Mahmoud Khalil in Violation of Court Order

[Celerity]

The Trump administration is blatantly ignoring the courts, yet again.

https://newrepublic.com/post/196837/ice-refuses-release-mahmoud-khalil-violation-court-order

https://archive.ph/7wQ1n



Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday that it would not release green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, after a federal judge ordered him to be released. U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz of New Jersey had given the government a deadline of 1:30 p.m. on Friday to appeal his ruling, and in a last-minute filing, the government said that it didn’t have to appeal the decision to keep detaining Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and leader of pro-Palestine campus protests.

The government claimed that the judge “did not order” them to release Khalil, but said only that they could not detain him based on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s determination that he was a threat to U.S. foreign policy interests because allowing him to remain in the U.S. would create a “hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.”

The government stated that it was well within its rights to detain Khalil on “other grounds,” namely his removability as “an alien inadmissible at the time of entry or admission, to wit. “And while the court made a factual finding that it was unlikely that Khalili would be detained on another basis … the court never held that it would be unlawful for Respondents to detain Khalil based on another charge of removability,” the filing stated.

Last month, the U.S. government alleged that Khalil purposefully failed to divulge his work as an unpaid intern for the United Nationals Relief and Work Agency and “withheld his membership of certain organizations” when applying for a visa, which was grounds for his removal. Khalil entered the U.S. on a student visa in 2022, and later applied for permanent residency in 2024.

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[sakabatou]

1. Right then. Put out an arrest warrant of the ICE officers for violating a court order

[Magoo48]

4. Unfortunately, warrants and orders don't mean shit if there's no enforcement; it simply makes you look weak

Enforce them, then show us what you’ve done.

[SSJVegeta]

2. The judge agreed that ICE can keep him over the alleged falsification

...an allegation that has frankly come out of left field, and the merits of which were not given an opportunity to be disputed.

[IbogaProject]

3. Wow

All this wrangling on words, I hope the administration gets called to account soon. I also hope they run out of these little "gotchas" and rulings can actually corner them.