""They know they don't have a case against me," Khalil said. "We will keep fighting the legal fight until the end and we are fairly confident that we will prevail at the end.""
""It was designed to be cruel," he said. "They want to break me.""
""The government tried to put me in prison and disappear me and the legal system vindicated me," he said. "However, this administration is trying everything to do to actually weaken this system.""
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro‑Palestinian activist and Syrian‑born legal permanent resident, appeared before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. The Trump administration appealed a lower court ruling that had ordered his release after three months in immigration detention. The appeals court did not issue a ruling at the hearing and said it would deliberate, a process that could take days or weeks. Khalil reported that his first child was born while he was detained and described the detention as "designed to be cruel." Khalil stated that courts have repeatedly supported him and expressed confidence he will prevail.
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