On Saturday, Palestinian activist and former Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested. It’s been reported that Khalil is a legal permanent resident but is currently being detained despite his status and no specific charges have been detailed. A judge has temporarily blocked Khalil’s deportation pending further action on his motion challenging his detention. Khalil was approached at his home by men who identified themselves as DHS officers who arrested him and threatened to arrest his eight-months-pregnant wife if she did not leave the area. Zeteo News posted a video his wife recorded of the arrest.

The DHS agents refused to give their names when asked.

His attorney, Amy Greer, told the Associated Press that one of the agents told her over the phone that they were following orders from the State Department to revoke Khalil’s student visa. When Greer told them that Khalil possessed a green card and was a legal permanent resident, the agent said they were revoking that instead.

His attorney immediately filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Southern District of New York and a Federal Judge issued an order saying he cannot be deported at this time. DHS has since been transported to Louisiana, which the government is now arguing strips the Southern District of New York of jurisdiction.

A federal court order that would have halted the immediate deportation of a Rhode Island doctor was issued Friday evening while the doctor’s departing plane sat on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport, said a family friend and colleague, according to the Providence Journal. But the plane ultimately took off, carrying Dr. Rasha Alawieh out of the country for reasons still unclear to her family, her lawyer and Brown Medicine colleagues such as Dr. Basma Merhi. Alawieh had been studying and working in the U.S. for the last six years and had been in Rhode Island, working for Brown Medicine in the Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension, since last July.

U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin, in Massachusetts, issued an order that Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, who had been detained at Logan Airport on Thursday after returning from visiting family in Lebanon, not be deported without giving the court 48 hours notice. It blatant defiance of the Court’s order, Alawieh was deported. Customs and border Patrol received actual notice of the order and willfully disobeyed it.

The Judge ordered that federal authorities “shall respond to these serious allegations with a legal and factual response setting forth its version of events. This response is also due by 8:30 a.m. Monday March 17, 2025, so that it is available to the court and the petitioner in advance of the hearing on Monday.”

Both Dr. Alawieh and Khalil were denied the right to speak with a lawyer after being arrested.

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