Lawyers Slam Deportation Case Against Palestinian Activist as “Sham”
Khalil, who served as a spokesperson for pro-Gaza demonstrations at the university and holds legal US residency, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2025 and held for 104 days. A federal judge subsequently ruled his detention unconstitutional.
Despite this, the Trump administration recently won an appeal, allowing the deportation case to continue in immigration court.
Lead attorney Marc Van Der Hout, who has nearly five decades of experience in immigration law, described the process as fundamentally unfair.
"This was not a real trial. This was not a real hearing," he said, adding that he has "never seen such a sham proceeding" in his career.
Van Der Hout detailed that the judge had rejected every motion filed at the start of the case and scheduled a merits hearing only three days after arraignment. He also claimed that the judge had drafted her decision before testimony concluded.
“From the time she walked in at the quote-unquote trial, the hearing, She never left the bench. About an hour into the hearing, she said, ‘I've heard enough,’ and then she read her prepared statement…that she'd written before the hearing even started,” Van Der Hout said.
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