Mahmoud Khalil testifies that deportation could mean death for him

Mahmoud Khalil said on Thursday that he had never imagined that the United States would pursue him for his speech and that his deportation could lead to “assassination, kidnapping, torture” and danger to his wife and little son, which he had hit a few hours earlier.

“It is really illegal what happens to me,” he said, adding: “I think justice will prevail.”

It was a whirlwind day for Mr. Khalil, a graduate of Columbia University and one of the leading personalities in Pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school. In the early morning he saw his month -long child Deen for the first time. And for hours he enforced witnesses of witnesses that were called by his lawyers and said that he would be in mortal danger if he was deported.

In his own certificate, Mr. Khalil said that the United States government “a terrorist, a terrorist sympathizer who could not be removed from the truth”. Regardless of this, he said where he could go in the world, he would have a goal on his back.

Mr. Khalil was arrested in New York City in March and has been arrested in Louisiana for more than two months. After the Trump government had already decided that the Trump government had fulfilled its burden to deport it, an immigration judge, Jamee Comans, listened to witnesses who argued that its international importance meant that Israel would address him if he was sent abroad.

“His life is at stake,” said one of his lawyers, Marc van der Hout, to judges.

At the status, Mr. Khalil recognized the severity of the potential effects that the United States left. But earlier in the day he was distracted: during the first part of the hearing, the baby slept in the courtroom, which was wrapped in a blue ceiling with a blue pacifier. Every time the boy struggled, Mr. Khalil turned and smiled.