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哥伦比亚大学学生Mohsen Mahdawi于2025年5月18日在美国纽约市哥伦比亚大学校园拍摄肖像。 REUTERS/Ryan Murphy 购买使用许可，新标签页打开
2月17日（路透社）- 美国移民法官驳回了唐纳德·特朗普总统政府试图驱逐哥伦比亚大学学生Mohsen Mahdawi的请求。Mahdawi去年因参与支持巴勒斯坦的抗议活动被捕。
Mahdawi的律师在周二向纽约联邦上诉法院提交的法庭文件中详细说明了移民法官的裁决。此前，该法院一直在审查一项导致他在4月获释的裁决。
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这是特朗普政府试图拘留和驱逐持亲巴勒斯坦或反以色列观点、参与校园活动的非公民学生的最新案例。
马萨诸塞州切姆斯福德的移民法官Nina Froes在2月13日的裁决中写道，美国国土安全部未能证明Mahdawi可被驱逐，其依据是一份未经证实的文件，由国务卿Marco Rubio签署。
Mahdawi在一份声明中表示：”这一决定是维护恐惧试图摧毁的权利的重要一步：为和平与正义发声的权利。”
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国土安全部未立即回应置评请求。政府可以选择向美国司法部下属的移民上诉委员会（Board of Immigration Appeals）对法官的裁决提出上诉。
Mahdawi在约旦河西岸难民营出生并长大，2025年4月在申请美国公民身份面试时被捕。一名法官迅速下令特朗普政府不得将他驱逐出美国或带离佛蒙特州。
在联邦地区法官Geoffrey Crawford下令释放后，Mahdawi在佛蒙特州伯灵顿的联邦法院走出拘留所，结束了两周的拘留。
另一起案件中，1月29日一名移民法官终止了政府对塔夫茨大学博士生Rumeysa Ozturk的驱逐程序。Ozturk因合写一篇批评校方对以色列在加沙战争反应的社论而遭到针对。
上个月，波士顿一名联邦法官裁定，政府采用了拘留和驱逐Ozturk和Mahdawi等学者的非法政策，这压制了大学中非公民学者的言论自由。司法部正在对该裁决提出上诉。
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Immigration judge rejects Trump effort to deport Palestinian student
By Nate Raymond
February 17, 2026 9:08 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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Feb 17 (Reuters) – A U.S. immigration judge has rejected efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested last year following his participation in pro-Palestinian protests.
Lawyers for Mahdawi detailed the immigration judge’s decision in a court filing on Tuesday with a federal appeals court in New York, which had been reviewing a ruling that led to his release from immigration custody in April.
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It was the latest case in which an immigration judge rejected a case brought as part of the broader effort by Trump’s administration to detain and deport non-citizen students with pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel views who engaged in campus activism.
Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Immigration Judge Nina Froes wrote in a February 13 decision that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security failed to meet its burden of proving he was removable, which it sought to do using an unauthenticated document signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“This decision is an important step towards upholding what fear tried to destroy: the right to speak for peace and justice,” Mahdawi said in a statement.
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The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The administration has the option of challenging the judge’s decision before the Board of Immigration Appeals, part of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mahdawi, born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was arrested in April 2025 upon arriving for an interview for his U.S. citizenship petition. A judge swiftly ordered Trump’s administration not to deport him from the U.S. or take him out of the state of Vermont.
After two weeks in detention, Mahdawi walked out of the federal courthouse in Burlington, Vermont, after U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford ordered that he be released.
In another case, an immigration judge on January 29 terminated removal proceedings the administration initiated against Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was targeted after co-authoring an editorial that criticized her school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza.
Last month, a federal judge in Boston ruled that the administration had adopted an unlawful policy of detaining and deporting scholars like Ozturk and Mahdawi that chilled the free speech of non-citizen academics at universities. The Justice Department is appealing that decision.
Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by David Gregorio
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