Overview

• A New Jersey federal judge held on June 5 that invoking a little-used 1952 immigration provision to deport Mahmoud Khalil likely violates constitutional protections.
• Khalil has remained in a Louisiana immigration detention center since his March 8 arrest by Department of Homeland Security agents.
• In new court filings, his legal team argued that prolonged family separation and confinement have caused extreme psychological harm.
• The filings include Khalil’s sworn declaration describing profound mental anguish and the erosion of his First Amendment rights.
• His attorneys have asked the court to vacate Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s deportation order and to grant Khalil immediate release