Court document claims ‘potentially serious foreign policy consequences’ amid outcry over Palestinian activist’s arrestThe US government is relying on a rarely used provision of the law to try to deport a prominent Palestinian activist who recently completed his graduate studies at Columbia University, where he was a leader in last year’s campus protests.A government charging document addressed to Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident and green card holder who is currently being held in a Louisiana detention center, said that secretary of state Marco Rubio “has reasonable ground to believe that your presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States”. Continue reading...
The US government is attempting to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder, using a rare foreign policy provision claiming his presence could have "potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences." Khalil, a leader in campus protests at Columbia University, was arrested and is being held in a Louisiana detention center. His lawyers are challenging the deportation, arguing it violates his free speech rights and is retaliation for his activism, with a judge temporarily preventing his deportation while the legal challenge is reviewed.
