The Trump administration acknowledged that even though there was no decision about Palestinian activist Halil, he was detained – Cyprus Newspaper

The US President Donald Trump admitted that the Palestinian activist Mahmud Halil was detained by the Customs and Immigration Department (ICE), although there was no decision against him.

A lawyer from the US Department of Internal Security (DHS) delivered a new file to the court for defense against Halil’s lawyers who were detained on the grounds that he had led Palestine support for support for Palestine.

The file reported that on March 8, the authorities reported that “Halil’s existence or activities could be sent from the country on the grounds that it could lead to serious foreign policy results for the US”.

Then the authorities by introducing themselves Halil and his wife Nur Abdalla’ya approached the file, the couple showed the documents that the documents of sitting permits were recorded.

In the file, the authorities later told Halil to “cooperate ,, but Halil rejected it and stated that he would leave the scene.

Thereupon, the authorities, Halil’in « the risk of escaping from the country and said that it is necessary to be detained, » said the Palestinian activist was taken into custody without « detention decision » was expressed.

Later, Halil was first taken to ICE’s office in New York, and the information that the detention decision was notified here was included in the file.

Description from Halil’s lawyers

In a statement made by the Union of American Civil Liberations (Aclu), Halil’s allegations of « refusing to cooperate and planning to escape » were wrong, and the videos and minutes at the time of the incident contradicted these statements.

Lawyer Marc Van Der Hout, representing Halil, said that the US officials said that there was a detention decision against Halil at the time of the incident, but that this decision was not actually present.

Van der Hout said that they were surprised by the government’s statement and said, “We hope that this DHS will take a terrible behavior and immigration court that requires termination of these transactions in accordance with the laws.” evaluated.

Amy Greer, one of the lawyers representing Halil, said in a statement, “Today we learned why they never showed Mahmud’s decision because they had no decision.” He said.

Greer stressed that the Trump administration is trying to justify Halil’s unlawful detention ”.

Detained students who support Palestine in the USA

Palestinian activist Mahmud Halil, a graduate student of the same university, who pioneered the protests of Columbia University in the USA, was detained at the entrance of the building on the way to his house with his wife on 8 March.

His lawyer Amy Greer stated that Halil was arrested by the authorities of the immigration and customs conservation department despite being in the United States as the “Green Card Permanent Residence Owner” and his wife was arrested and the green card was canceled.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in his share of his social media platform X account, « Hamas supporters in the United States or the green cards of the supporters or green cards, so they can be deported. » He used the expression.

For similar reasons, Turkish student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was a PhD at TUFT University, was also detained.