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Bypassing the first amendment because that's what authoritarian bureaucrats do [1]
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Date: 2025-03-23
“Khalil’s First Amendment allegations are a red herring,” they wrote. Given the new allegations, they added, there was an “independent basis” for his deportation.
“The new deportation grounds are patently weak and pretextual,” said one of Mr. Khalil’s lawyers, Ramzi Kassem, a co-director of CLEAR, a legal clinic at the City University of New York. “That the government scrambled to add them at the 11th hour only highlights how its motivation from the start was to retaliate against Mr. Khalil for his protected speech in support of Palestinian rights and lives.”
Mr. Khalil’s lawyers are expected to argue that the new accusations are pretext for continued retaliation against their client’s speech and his continued detention far from his home and family. They’re fighting for his release in a New Jersey federal court. Mr. Khalil’s wife, an American citizen who lives in New York City, is expected to give birth next month.
The new allegations, listed in a document from the Homeland Security Department, include that Mr. Khalil did not disclose his work with the U.N. agency or Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student groups that set off pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school. Mr. Khalil earned a master’s degree from Columbia in December.
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