Trump administration will keep Mahmoud Khalil in custody
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A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.
Mahmoud Khalil was denied release on Friday by a judge who, earlier in the week, had rejected the Trump administration’s main legal basis for seeking to deport and detain the pro-Palestinian activist.