What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
Even after the injunction, the Trump administration has continued trying to remove Khalil through other means. After the \u201cforeign policy\u201d basis was blocked, the government introduced new allegations \u2014 claiming Khalil misrepresented facts in his green card application. His lawyers call the new charges \u201cpost hoc and pretextual,\u201d and part of the same retaliatory campaign.<\/p>\n
An immigration judge ruled against Khalil on these new grounds but his team appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose charges are baseless and obviously as part and parcel of the broader project of retaliation,\u201d said Baher Azmy, legal director at the Center of Constitutional Rights, who also worked on Khalil\u2019s case. It all \u201cstems from the same sort of rotten root, their desire to punish him for speaking out on behalf of Palestinian human rights,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The case has become a rallying point for advocates concerned with immigrant rights<\/a>, campus free speech<\/a> and unchecked executive power.<\/p>\n \u201cThe implications are much broader and they\u2019re broader than people who are speaking up for Palestinian human rights,\u201d said Ramzi Kassem, founder and co-director of Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility. \u201cIt\u2019s a template that can be mobilized against any issue set that this administration disagrees with, whether it\u2019s reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights or racial justice, this model could be applied to those issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next? Even after the injunction, the Trump administration has continued trying to remove Khalil through other means.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,12764,53534,8335,1448,2830,1311,49738,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-322812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-deportations","10":"tag-federal-court","11":"tag-mahmoud-khalil","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-trump-impact","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115415694990809204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}