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   A federal judge declined Friday to order the Trump administration to   
   release pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention   
   despite finding that the basis for his arrest and initial detention was   
   illegal.   
      
   U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled Wednesday that Secretary of   
   State Marco Rubio’s decision to revoke Khalil’s green card and tee up his   
   deportation was likely unconstitutional retaliation for his role   
   organizing pro-Palestinian protests on Columbia University’s campus last   
   year. But on Friday, Farbiarz said the administration could continue to   
   keep Khalil detained in Louisiana, where he’s been locked up since March,   
   on a separate alleged immigration violation that officials lodged after   
   his arrest.   
      
   That violation was based on an allegation that Khalil failed to list prior   
   employers and membership in certain organizations when he obtained his   
   green card. Khalil and his attorneys say the second charge was linked to   
   the same retaliation campaign.   
      
   But Farbiarz ruled Friday that the administration could continue to detain   
   Khalil on the basis of that alleged paperwork violation.   
      
   “That second charge has not been preliminarily enjoined by the court,”   
   Farbiarz wrote in response to a demand for clarity from Khalil’s   
   attorneys.   
      
   Farbiarz’s ruling dashed the hopes of Khalil’s advocates that he might   
   walk free Friday morning, when Farbiarz’s earlier order blocking his   
   detention under the Rubio determination took effect.   
      
   “We are profoundly disappointed that Mahmoud has to bear any more delay   
   and detention from this historically outrageous government conduct,” said   
   Baher Azmy, an attorney for Khalil.   
      
   Farbiarz’s Friday ruling came despite his finding Wednesday that it was   
   “overwhelmingly likely” that the alleged green card application violation   
   was not the reason he was being held by immigration authorities. Rather,   
   he said, the detention “almost surely flows from the charge that is based   
   on the Secretary of State’s determination.”   
      
   The judge also noted Wednesday that people are rarely detained for the   
   paperwork infraction Khalil is accused of.   
      
   “The evidence is that lawful permanent residents are virtually never   
   detained pending removal for the sort of alleged omissions in a lawful-   
   permanent-resident application that the Petitioner is charged with here,”   
   Farbiarz wrote in the initial ruling.   
      
   In his Friday order, Farbiarz noted that Khalil can seek a bond hearing   
   from an immigration judge on the second charge.   
      
   An immigration judge in Louisiana ruled weeks ago that Khalil can be   
   deported as a national security risk. Khalil is expected to appeal the   
   immigration judge’s ruling.   
      
   https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/13/mahmoud-khalil-detention-ruling-   
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