(NY Post) The Trump administration can continue to hold anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil at the Louisiana detention facility where he’s been locked up since March, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Judge Michael Farbiarz had issued a preliminary injunction earlier this week barring the Trump administration from deporting the ex-Columbia University student and ordering his release.
On Friday, however, the New Jersey judge determined that federal authorities can continue to hold Khalil on a separate alleged immigration violation discovered after his initial arrest.
“It would plainly be unlawful to detain [Khalil] on a charge the Court preliminarily enjoined,” Farbiarz wrote in his order. “But by their letter of this afternoon … the [Trump administration] have now represented that [Khalil] is being detained on another, second charge.”
