Trump Administration Won't Release Mahmoud Khalil
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TAG24 on MSNMahmoud Khalil's detention extended ahead of first Father's Day as stars read out letter to sonA federal judge on Friday denied Mahmoud Khalil's request for release from ICE detention ahead of the Palestinian rights activist's first Father's Day.
"This vindicates what Mahmoud has maintained since day one — that the government cannot detain or deport him based on Rubio’s say-so," Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for Khalil and a law professor at the City University of New York, said in a statement.
Lawyers for a former Columbia University graduate student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests asked a US judge to release him after the government failed to file an appeal by a Friday deadline.