The wife of Mahmoud Khalil gave birth to the first son of the couple early on Monday, while the graduate of the University of Columbia was caught in a Louisian detention center after the authorities refused to grant him a temporary release to meet his newborn son.
Dr. Noor Abdalla, 28, gave Khalil’s son in New York on Monday morning while he remained in retaining several states far from the attempts of the Trump administration to Deporting the 30-year legal permanent resident of his leadership in Anti-Israel protests.
Khalil’s lawyer had asked the application of immigration and customs to let the American resident born in Sirius temporarily and with restrictions instead, but could be there for his family, but his request was quickly denied, Abdalla said.
“My son and I should not navigate their first days on Earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen precious moments of our family in an attempt to silence Mahmoud’s support for Palestinian freedom,” he said in a statement.
“I will continue fighting every day so that Mahmoud returns home.
Khalil was the first tasks in ice custody in early March. The Trump administration revoked its green card and was a practice with shipping during the night to a detention center in Louisiana, where it has remained since then.
It was the first of many international students involved in the defense of Palestine that were suddenly tasks of Custody for ICE, including a doctoral student from the University of Tufts who signed an opinion article on the investments of the institution in Israel.
Recently, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Khalil can be deported, but he is an uncle if this could happen. Your lawyers will have the opportunity to appeal the ruling before it can be torn from the United States.
Khalil and Abdalla, American citizen, have been together for two years. A firm defender of her husband, originally said she hoped she was released in time to see the birth of her son.
“I think it would be very devastating for me and to meet his first child behind a glass screen. I have always been excited to have my first baby with the person I love,” Abdalla said previously.