U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman, an Obama appointee, has slammed the brakes on the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student whose green card was revoked following his detention by ICE.
This radical foreign national, labeled by the White House as a “Pro-Hamas Student,” was set to be removed from the United States—until Furman’s activist ruling threw a wrench into the gears of justice.
On Saturday, President Trump’s ICE agents arrested activist Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-born activist who has led anti-Israel protests at Columbia and Barnard College.
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,” Rubio said on the social platform X.
“On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student,” McLaughlin wrote in a statement to Columbia Spectator.
“Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization… ICE and the Department of State are committed to enforcing President Trump’s executive orders and to protecting U.S. national security,” she added.
Despite the clear legal basis for his detention, Khalil’s allies in the liberal legal community wasted no time filing a habeas corpus petition, claiming his arrest was retaliation for his “constitutionally protected speech.”
His attorneys argue that moving him to a Louisiana detention facility was an “attempt to disrupt the legal process.”
Khalil’s lawyer, Amy Greer, wrote support for Khalil’s motion to compel U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to return him to New York after he was transferred to a detention facility in Louisiana despite having a pending habeas corpus petition challenging the legality of his detention.
According to a legal filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Khalil—who is married to a U.S. citizen and expecting his first child next month—was snatched from his student housing on March 8, 2025.
Hours after Khalil’s lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition, ICE transferred him to Louisiana, 1,000 miles away, allegedly without notifying his attorneys.
His lawyers argue this was retaliatory and meant to disrupt the court’s jurisdiction over his habeas case.
On Monday, Furman issued an order in the Southern District of New York, declaring that Khalil “shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court orders otherwise.”
The judge’s decision invokes the All Writs Act. The All Writs Act states that “The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions.” This means that federal courts have the authority to issue any writ that they deem necessary or appropriate to support their jurisdiction and carry out their duties.
This is nothing short of a shameless power grab, cloaked in legal jargon, to shield a dangerous individual from the consequences of his actions. The Trump administration had acted decisively to protect American citizens, but Furman’s intervention reeks of the same old liberal elitism that prioritizes foreign radicals over national security.
Read the order below:
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