新泽西州联邦法官发布初步禁令，禁止特朗普政府驱逐或继续拘留哥伦比亚大学亲巴勒斯坦活动人士马哈茂德·哈利勒。
法官迈克尔·法比亚兹(Michael Farbiarz)在周三发布的裁决中，禁止政府寻求解除哈利勒的职务，理由是国务卿马尔科·卢比奥的决心他继续留在这个国家会给外交政策带来风险。
法官将强制令延至周五上午9:30。他的律师表示，在哈利勒必须被释放之前，特朗普政府有大约40个小时的时间对这一决定进行上诉。
法官的命令说，一旦哈利勒提交“1美元的名义保证金”，初步禁令将生效。
哈利勒是绿卡持有者，与一名美国公民结婚，自ICE特工以来一直被关押在路易斯安那州的拘留所在他公寓的大厅里逮捕了他3月8日在纽约。
四月，路易斯安那州的移民法官统治根据卢比奥的说法，哈利勒可以被驱逐出境，他在该国的继续存在和行动造成了“不利的外交政策后果”。法官尚未对第二组指控做出裁决，这些指控源于国土安全部对哈利勒隐瞒绿卡申请信息的指控。
但Farbiarz在他的裁决中表示，像哈利勒这样被指控在申请中做出虚假陈述的合法永久居民“实际上从未被拘留等待驱逐。”
哈利勒的律师称法官批准初步禁令的决定是一个“大胜利”
宪法权利中心的法律主任巴赫尔·阿兹米(Baher Azmy)在一份声明中说，“我们感到欣慰的是，法院记录了对世界来说显而易见的事情，即政府因马哈茂德的巴勒斯坦激进主义而对他进行报复性和违宪的逮捕、拘留和试图驱逐，给他和他的家人造成了痛苦的个人和职业伤害。”。
哈利勒的妻子，努尔·阿卜杜拉博士-谁生了孩子给他们的第一个孩子，她说她希望他能在家里和家人一起过他的第一个父亲节。
阿卜杜拉在周三的一份声明中说:“马哈茂德必须被立即释放，并安全返回纽约的家中，与我和我们的新生婴儿迪恩在一起。”“真正的正义将意味着马哈茂德从一开始就没有被从我们身边带走，从纽约到加沙，没有一个巴勒斯坦父亲像马哈茂德一样必须忍受监狱墙壁的痛苦分离。”
唐纳德·特朗普总统政府的官员表示，哈利勒因据称支持哈马斯而被拘留，他的法律团队否认了这一说法。
在该案的一份备忘录中，卢比奥写道，哈利勒应该被驱逐出境，因为他涉嫌参与“反犹太主义抗议和破坏性活动，这些活动在美国培养了一种对犹太学生的敌对环境。”
上月在路易斯安那州的听证会上，哈利勒作证支持他的庇护申请和叙利亚，他在那里的一个巴勒斯坦难民营中长大。
他一再表示，特朗普政府指控他是哈马斯支持者，这使他在任何他可能被驱逐到的国家都成为以色列的目标。在叙利亚，他还表示，阿萨德政权的残余势力以及国内的军事派别可能会以他为目标，或者他可能会被用作叙利亚新政府与包括美国在内的其他国家谈判的“筹码”
在听证会之前，哈利勒的律师提交了600多页的文件、声明和专家分析，支持他们的说法，即他不是反犹太主义者，如果被驱逐出境，他可能会面临酷刑和死亡。
Judge rules Trump administration cannot continue to detain Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
A New Jersey federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from deporting or continuing to detain Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
In his ruling issued on Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz is barring the administration from seeking to remove Khalil based onSecretary of State Marco Rubio's determinationthat his continued presence in the country would pose a risk to foreign policy.
The judge is staying his injunction until 9:30 a.m. Friday. The timing gives the Trump administration about 40 hours to appeal the decision before Khalil must be released, his attorneys said.
The preliminary injunction will go into effect once Khalil posts a "nominal bond in the amount of $1," the judge's order said.
Khalil, a green card holder who is married to an American citizen, has been held in a Louisiana detention facility since ICE agentsarrested him in the lobby of his apartment buildingin New York City on March 8.
In April, an immigration judge in Louisianaruledthat Khalil is deportable based on Rubio's assertion that his continued presence and actions in the country pose an "adverse foreign policy consequence." The judge has yet to rule on a second set of charges which stem from the Department of Homeland Security's allegations that Khalil withheld information on his green card application.
But Farbiarz stated in his ruling that lawful permanent residents, like Khalil, who are accused of making misrepresentations on their applications are "virtually never detained pending removal."
Khalil's attorneys called the judge's decision to grant their motion for the preliminary injunction a "big win."
"We are relieved that the court documented what was obvious to the world, which is that the government's vindictive and unconstitutional arrest, detention and attempted deportation of Mahmoud for his Palestinian activism is causing him and his family agonizing personal and professional harm," Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement.
Khalil's wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla -- whogave birthto their first child while Khalil has been detained -- said she hopes he can experience his first Father's Day at home with his family.
"Mahmoud must be released immediately and safely returned home to New York to be with me and our newborn baby, Deen," Abdalla said in a statement Wednesday. "True justice would mean Mahmoud was never taken away from us in the first place, that no Palestinian father, from New York to Gaza, would have to endure the painful separation of prison walls like Mahmoud has."
Officials from President Donald Trump's administration have said Khalil was detained for his purported support of Hamas -- a claim his legal team has rejected.
In a memo filed in the case, Rubio wrote that Khalil should be deported because of his alleged role in "antisemitic protests and disruptive activities, which fosters a hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States."
During a hearing last month in Louisiana, Khaliltestified in support of his case for asylumand for withholding of removal to either Algeria or Syria, where he grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp.
He repeatedly stated that the Trump administration's accusations that he's a Hamas supporter makes him a target for Israel in any country he could be deported to. In Syria, he also said remnants of the Assad regime as well as military factions within the country could target him or that he could be used as a "bargaining chip" in negotiations between the new Syrian government and other nations including the U.S.
Ahead of the hearing, Khalil's attorney submitted over 600 pages of documents, declarations and expert analyses supporting their claim that he is not antisemitic and that he could face torture and death if he were to be deported.
