The agency’s policy requires detaining noncitizen parents who are primary caretakers or have custody of minors in facilities close to their children.

Palestinian activist and former graduate student, who has been in ICE custody in Jena since early March, will remain in their custody for now.The federal government claims Khalil poses “adverse foreign policy consequences” after leading pro-Palestine protests on the campus of Columbia University.

A former Columbia University graduate who has been fighting deportation over his participation in pro-Palestinian protests was ordered released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility by a federal judge.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that it will continue to detain Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil, after a federal judge ruled that he can’t be held based on the U.S. secretary of state’s determination that he could harm American foreign policy.

On March 8, 2025 Mahmoud Khalil was detained by ICE in the lobby of his apartment building in New York. Mahmoud is well know for his involvement in protest related to

An immigration judge on April 10 declared Khalil deportable as a national security risk in response to a declaration from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The judge, Jamee E. Comans, found that the government had established that Khalil being in the U.S. posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences," according to The Associated Press.