Overview

• Farbiarz ordered ICE to release Khalil immediately and asked a magistrate to determine appropriate bail conditions.
• The judge concluded that Khalil posed neither a flight risk nor a threat to public safety.
• After initially blocking detention under the Secretary of State’s foreign policy authority, Farbiarz also ruled that allegations of green card omissions failed to justify custody.
• Khalil, a lawful permanent resident and former Columbia student with no criminal history, has been held in Louisiana since his March 8 arrest for pro-Palestinian campus protests.
• His release follows similar rulings freeing other foreign student activists and clears the way for his return to New York to reunite with his wife and newborn son.