Mahmoud Khalil, the anti-Israel activist and Columbia University graduate fighting deportation, is challenging the Trump administration’s narrative that he was moved to a Louisiana detention center because of a New Jersey bedbug infestation.
Khalil, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on March 8 after the State Department revoked his green card, argues in court documents viewed by the New York Post that his transfer to a detention center 1,300 miles away from his home was “predetermined and carried out for improper motives.”
In their own filing, federal immigration authorities reportedly claimed that Khalil, 30, could not stay at the Elizabeth Detention Center on a long-term basis “due to a bedbug issue.”
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