The judge allows the deportation of Colombia Mahmoud Halil’s graduate

US judge has ruled the government can deport Mahmoud Halil, a graduate of the University of Colombia, arrested last month by immigration officers.

Halil is being held at the Louisiana Retention Center since March 8, when US immigration officials told him that he was deported to participate in the campus protests against the Gaza war.

The propalist activist is a permanent legal resident of the United States and is not charged with a crime. The government seeks to remove it under the Immigration Law from the Cold War era.

In a letter written by the facility, Halil stated that “his arrest is a direct consequence” of a statement about Palestine.

The judge said the Trump administration was allowed to move forward with its efforts to deport Halil, since the argument that it was “unfavorable foreign policy consequences” for the United States was “sensible from the face”.

The judge gave Khalil’s lawyers until April 23 to appeal his deportation to Algeria or Syria.

“I would like to quote what you said last time that there is nothing more important for this court than the proper rights of the process and the basic justice,” said Halil in court.

“It is clear what we have witnessed today, none of these principles was present today or in the whole process,” he said. “That’s why the Trump administration sent me to this court, 1000 miles from my family.”