一名移民法官给代表国土安全部的律师24小时多一点的时间来提供马哈茂德·哈利勒的法律团队有证据表明他可以被免职在对他的指控下离开美国。
哈利勒是拥有绿卡的合法永久居民，上个月在纽约哥伦比亚大学的住所被移民和海关执法人员逮捕。
哈利勒是去年春天哥伦比亚营地抗议活动的领导人，他的律师说，他于3月8日被拘留，然后被带到新泽西州伊丽莎白的移民拘留设施，最后被送到路易斯安那州的拘留中心。
周二，在路易斯安那州耶拿举行的移民听证会上，法官贾米·科曼斯(Jamee Comans)将另一场听证会定于周五举行，让哈利勒的团队有时间审查证据并做出回应。
科曼斯说，她将决定他是否可以被驱逐或下令释放他。
在听证会几个小时后发布的一份声明中，哈利勒的律师马克·范德胡特(Marc Van Der Hout)批评了这一时间表，称政府没有拿出“一丝一毫的证据”来支持其指控。
范德胡特在一份声明中说:“然而，移民法官今天表示，她打算在周五就这项古怪指控的是非曲直做出裁决，马哈茂德和他的律师没有任何实际机会对这项毫无根据的指控提出质疑。”“如果这被证明是周五发生的事情，这将是一个不必要的匆忙判决，将完全剥夺马哈茂德的任何正当程序，这是我们法律制度的基础。”
周二早些时候的庭审有时会变得紧张，法官一度表示，有近600人在等待参加只为法律当事人保留的虚拟听证会，称这非常不寻常。
范德胡特注意到公众对该案的兴趣，要求法官考虑让公众参加未来的听证会，但她拒绝了，并表示她正在考虑让所有未来的听证会“仅限于亲自出席”，这样他的所有律师都需要亲自出席。
哈利勒穿着蓝色连身衣坐在那里。在整个听证会上，他只说了几个字。有一次，他问法官，他的妻子努尔·阿卜杜拉(Noor Abdalla)是否也可以获得视频。
“法官大人，如果您能让我妻子进来，我将不胜感激，”他问道。
当她进来时，阿卜杜拉出现在大屏幕上。哈利勒转过身看着她，然后把目光转向房间的前面。
据范德胡特说，哈利勒的妻子将在“几周内”分娩。
在最后一次庭审中，Khalil的律师获准延期，以便有更多时间审查DHS提交的出庭通知中对他提出的指控。
当范德胡特第二次要求延期审理，并声称代表DHS的律师没有提供证据来支持对其当事人的指控时，科曼斯再次变得焦虑不安。
“我们没有收到他们的任何文件，”他说。
他敦促法官给他更多的时间，说“我们不能辩护”，直到他们知道不利于哈利勒的证据。
但Comans拒绝了他的请求，并命令范德胡特当场进入哈利勒的12项指控的抗辩。
这些指控从程序性的，比如“你是叙利亚人，是阿尔及利亚公民”，到指控他对DHS隐瞒他所谓的哥伦比亚大学种族隔离撤资小组成员的信息。
他还被要求对DHS声称国务卿马尔科·卢比奥发现哈利勒“在美国的存在或活动将对美国的外交政策产生严重的不利后果”做出回应
范德胡特对每一项指控都予以“否认”。
Comans传达了解决这些问题的紧迫感，指出哈利勒已经被拘留了几个星期。她告诉双方，当他们争论他是否可以离开时，她“不会拘留他”。
法庭上挤满了记者和一些支持者。其中一人被告知，她需要在走进法庭前摘下头巾。
听证会结束后，哈利勒回头向慢慢走出房间的支持者和媒体挥手微笑。
他微笑着向他的一个支持者挥动和平手势。
Judge gives Trump administration 24 hours to provide evidence of Mahmoud Khalil's removability
An immigration judge has given lawyers representing the Department of Homeland Security a little over 24 hours to provide Mahmoud Khalil's legal teamwith evidence that he is removablefrom the U.S. under the allegations lobbed against him.
Khalil, a legal permanent resident with a green card, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at his Columbia University housing in New York last month.
Khalil, a leader of the encampment protests at Columbia last spring, was detained on March 8, then taken to an immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, before ending up in a Louisiana detention center, his attorneys said.
At an immigration hearing in Jena, Louisiana, on Tuesday, Judge Jamee Comans set another hearing for Friday to give Khalil's team time to review the evidence and respond to it.
Comans said she will then make a determination whether he is removable or order him to be released.
In a statement released several hours after the hearing, Khalil's lawyer, Marc Van Der Hout criticized the timeline, arguing the government hasn't produced "a single shred of evidence" to support its allegations.
"Yet the Immigration judge today stated she intends to rule Friday on the merits of this outlandish charge with no realistic opportunity for Mahmoud and his lawyers to contest this baseless charge," Van Der Hout said in a statement. "If this turns out to be what happens Friday, it would be an uncalled for rush to judgement that would completely deprive Mahmoud of any due process, which is a foundation of our legal system.”
The court hearing earlier Tuesday grew tense at times, with the judge at one point saying there were nearly 600 people waiting to attend the virtual hearing that was reserved for legal parties only, saying this was highly unusual.
Noting the public interest in the case, Van Der Hout asked the judge to consider making future hearings accessible to the public, but she refused and said she was considering making all future hearings "in-person only" so all of his lawyers would need to attend in person.
Khalil was seated wearing a blue jumpsuit. He only said a handful of words throughout the hearing. At one point he asked the judge if his wife, Noor Abdalla, could also be allowed to have access to the video feed.
"Your honor, I would appreciate if you could let my wife in," he asked.
When she was let in, Abdalla was shown on the big screen. Khalil turned to look at her and then returned his gaze to the front of the room.
Khalil's wife is due to give birth within "a couple of weeks," according to Van Der Hout.
During the last hearing, Khalil's lawyers were granted continuance to give additional time to review the allegations raised against him in the Notice to Appear filed by DHS.
Comans again grew agitated when Van Der Hout asked for continuance a second time and claimed lawyers representing DHS had not provided evidence to back up the allegations against his client.
"We have not received a single document from them," he said.
He urged the judge to allow him more time, saying "we can not plead" until they knew the evidence they had against Khalil.
But Comans denied his request and ordered Van Der Hout to enter Khalil's plea for over 12 allegations on the spot.
The allegations ranged from procedural, such as "You are a native of Syria and a citizen of Algeria," to accusations that he withheld information from DHS about his alleged membership in the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group.
He was also asked to respond to the DHS claim that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had found Khalil's "presence or activities in the United States would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States."
Van Der Hout responded "deny" for each allegation.
Comans conveyed a sense of urgency to get these issues resolved, noting Khalil had already spent several weeks in detention. She told both parties she was "not going to keep him detained" while they argued over his removability.
The court room was packed with reporters and a handful of supporters. One of them was told she needed to take off her keffiyeh before she walked into the courtroom.
As the hearing was adjourned, Khalil turned back to wave and smile at the group of supporters and press that were trickling out of room.
He smiled and waved a peace sign at one of his supporters.
