Mahmoud Khalil, Judge Michael Farbiarz
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JENA, La. — The Trump administration said Friday that it will continue to detain Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil, after a federal judge ruled that he could not be held based on the U.S. secretary of state’s determination that he could harm American foreign policy.
Lawyers for a former Columbia University graduate student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests asked a US judge to release him after the government failed to file an appeal by a Friday deadline.