WaPo: “Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil’s attorneys were stunned when an immigration judge in Jena, Louisiana, announced this week that she would rule on whether he should be deported at a hearing Friday — three days after his initial court appearance.
“That is, in my opinion, contrary to every notion of due process,” Marc Van Der Hout, one of his attorneys, told reporters before the hearing.
He said the compressed schedule gave them little time to review the Trump administration’s evidence, submitted to the court two days before the expected ruling, alleging the legal U.S. permanent resident is a national security threat for leading pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations at Columbia last year.
On Friday, immigration Judge Jamee Comans ruled that Khalil is eligible for deportation. It marked a major setback for his legal representatives and immigrant rights advocates who have accused the Trump administration of strategically isolating college students and professors at remote Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in Louisiana and Texas with the intention of creating additional complications for their legal cases.”