Columbia Encampment Organizer Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Rearrested, Appeals Court Rules

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A federal appeals court ruled that a lower court didn’t have jurisdiction to order the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of anti-Semitic protests at Columbia University, from detention. The reversal could lead to his rearrest and brings the Trump administration closer to deporting Khalil. In a 2-1 decision , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on Thursday that the Immigration and Nationality Act indicated that Khalil’s petition for release needed to first go through