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(NewsNation) — The Trump administration connected Thursday volition marque its lawsuit to deport pro-Palestine activistic and caller Columbia University postgraduate Mahmoud Khalil.
During the 8:30 a.m. ET hearing, the national authorities volition grow connected its newest accusations against Khalil, who was arrested earlier this period and taken to an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention center.
Khalil holds legal imperishable nonmigratory status successful the United States.
The national authorities present accuses Khalil of lying connected his green paper application. Khalil besides allegedly lied astir his engagement with a Columbia University conjugation of anti-Israel pupil organizations.
The Justice Department said Khalil failed to notation helium worked successful the Syria bureau of the British embassy successful Lebanon.
They besides impeach Khalil of being a subordinate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) for Palestinian Refugees — which UNRWA denies.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended Khalil's arrest, writing connected X earlier this month: "We volition beryllium revoking the visas and/or greenish cards of Hamas supporters successful America truthful they tin beryllium deported."
ICE arrests students connected to protests
Since then, ICE agents person arrested Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old Columbia pupil and lawful imperishable nonmigratory from South Korea, and Georgetown University prof and Indian nationalist Badar Khan Suri.
Both were accused of supporting Hamas, but the authorities hasn't shown immoderate grounds to enactment those accusations.
Attorneys for Yunseo Chung filed a suit against President Donald Trump and different apical officials alleging authorities overreach for seeking Chung’s deportation. The ailment comes aft Trump said the apprehension of Columbia University postgraduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil would beryllium the “first of galore to come.”
Just this week, ICE agents successful Boston sparked outrage aft Tufts University PhD pupil Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was arrested by plainclothes agents extracurricular her flat Tuesday.
Video obtained by The Associated Press appears to amusement six people, their faces covered, taking distant Ozturk’s telephone arsenic she yells and is handcuffed.
The Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to NewsNation’s petition for remark connected cases involving those claiming to beryllium targeted. They person issued erstwhile statements astir the arrests.
NewsNation's Jeff Arnold and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
