The wife of the pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil gave birth to her first child while remaining immigration and customs compliance.
Khalil, who is being held at a detention center in Jena, Louisiana, a temporary liberation application was denied to meet his son, according to the emails reviewed by ABC News.
Khalil’s lawyers requested a two -week permit, noting that his wife, Dr. Abdalla, had entered labor “eight days earlier than expected,” shows an email addressed to the director of the Ice Ero ero field office of New Orleans, Mellissa B. Harper.
In the email, the lawyers also recommended that Khalil could be placed on the ankle monitor and could make ice records.
Mahmoud Khalil talks to media members about the revolt of the Rafah camp at Columbia University during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, in New York City, on June 1, 2024.
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Harper denied the request, writing in an email: “After considering the information sent and a review of the case of your client, your permission application refuses.”
Dr. Noor Abdalla issued a statement after birth, saying: “My son and I should not navigate their first days on Earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments of our family in an attempt to silence Mahmoud’s support for Palestinian freedom.”
On April 11, an immigration judge ruled that Khalil is removable after Secretary of State Frame Rubio invoked a section of the law that considered it deportable because, said the government, its continuous presence in the United States would have an adverse consequence in foreign policy.
Louisiana’s judge has given Khalil’s lawyers a deadline of April 23 to submit relief requests to stop their deportation. The judge said that if they failed to make the deadline, she would present an order of removal to Syria or Algeria.
While he was a student at Columbia University, Khalil was part of a leadership group that protested by the war in Gaza. Khalil participated in negotiations with school administrators who demanded that the institution reduce ties with Israel and disintegrate Israeli companies. Khalil finished his postgraduate studies in Columbia in December and will graduate in spring.
He was arrested for the application of immigration and customs in his home in Columbia in March.
