Acting President of Colombia University Claire Sheepman He was received with the values and chants from “”Mahmoud is free“When I took the lecture to speak at the school graduation ceremony on Tuesday.
Social media videos showed that Shipman stops while students appoint them before they can start speaking.
“I know that many of you feel a degree of frustration with me and I know that you feel it with the administration. I know that we have a strong and strong tradition in freedom of expression in this university. I am always open to the comments, which I get now.”
Later on her speech, Sheibman was boycotted by students who chanted “Mahmoud Al -Hurra”, referring to Mahmoud Khalil, a student student who was detained by the immigration authorities in March in New York City and New York City He is still in reservation in Louisiana.
Despite his absence, Khalil’s name was read during the ceremony while the students accepted their certificates, which prompted a loud voice of students present.
Khalil, a Syrian-born immigrant with the constituent of the United States illegal-also known as a Green card He was an audio member of the protests led by students in Colombia against the war in Gaza. Khalil was not accused of any crimes, but the Trump administration has argued that he should be deported on the basis that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio decided to be in the United States and protest activities “severe consequences for foreign policy.” The administration also accused Khalil of fraud. A lawyer opposes both claims.
The Louisiana immigration judge spent last month that the administration could Continue her effort to deport KhalilHe said she had no conflict authority on Rubio’s design, which cited a rarely used law. I immigration fraud was accused of waiting. A separate case is progressing in New Jersey, where the lawyers challenge the legitimacy of Khalil’s detention.
Khalil is Among many university students Those who have been detained or canceled their visas amid the Trump administration campaign on what anti -Semitic or pro -enthusiastic activities say. Civil rights groups criticized these moves, accusing the government of punishing students for their political beliefs and violating the rights of the first amendment.
Among those who targeted the administration Mohsen MahdawiA 34 -year -old American legal resident who was detained in mid -April during a sexual interview in Vermont. It was released On April 30, after Fermont’s federal judge probably spent that Mahdawi was punished for protected speech.
Mahdi graduated from Colombia on Monday, wearing a qualitative and offering justice to his festive hat while accepting his diploma. Before the ceremony, he told CBS News that he felt a “combination of emotions”, including “feeling of victory”. He said he was planning to return to school to follow the graduate degree.
SHIPman has been the prosecutor in Colombia since late March, when interim President Katrina Armstrong, who took herself herself, took over. When former university president, Dr. Minsh Shafik, resigned the next cash Who dealt with it with Obligations on the Israeli war And allegations Entity of Semitism on campus.
In this report, Ketlin Yaelk, Joe Walsh, Laila Luciano, and Camilo Montoya Galvose contributed to this report.
