2026年2月17日 / 美国东部时间晚上10:25 / CBS/美联社
一名移民法官阻止了特朗普政府驱逐穆赫森·马哈杜维（Mohsen Mahdawi）的行动。马哈杜维是一名巴勒斯坦研究生，曾在哥伦比亚大学领导反对以色列及加沙战争的抗议活动。
周二，马哈杜维的律师公布了法官的裁决，法官尼娜·弗罗斯（Nina Froes）表示，她已终止此案，原因是政府律师存在程序失误——他们未能按要求对作为证据使用的官方文件进行认证。
特朗普政府可能会对这一裁决提起上诉。但这一裁决标志着联邦政府大规模驱逐亲巴勒斯坦校园活动人士及其他批评以色列者的努力再次受挫。
过去十年间一直是美国合法永久居民的马哈杜维，去年4月在他以为是公民面试时被移民局逮捕。两周后，在联邦法官的命令下获释。
此后数月，政府继续推进驱逐他的程序，理由是国务卿马尔科·卢比奥（Marco Rubio）的一份备忘录称，非公民若其存在可能损害美国外交政策利益，可被驱逐出境。
法官在裁决中指出，政府律师提交了该文件的复印件，但未按联邦法律要求对其进行认证。
马哈杜维在其律师发布的声明中表示：”我感谢法庭维护法治，抵制政府践踏正当程序的企图。这一决定是维护’恐惧试图摧毁’的和平与正义话语权的重要一步。”
马哈杜维还在联邦地区法院提起另一诉讼，指控自己被非法拘留。其律师表示，该案件仍在审理中。
即将于下周离职的美国国土安全部发言人特里西娅·麦克劳克林（Tricia McLaughlin）在向美联社发表的声明中，将马哈杜维描述为”支持恐怖主义骚乱的头目”，称应吊销其签证。
“任何活动人士法官，无论现任还是其他，都无法阻止我们这么做，”她补充道。
特朗普政府已逮捕多名参与亲巴勒斯坦校园抗议的国际学生并试图驱逐他们，指控他们存在反犹主义行为，并援引一项联邦法律——允许国务卿阻止可能对美国造成”不利外交政策后果”的人士入境签证。这些学生因被拘留提起诉讼，称他们因行使受宪法第一修正案保护的言论自由而遭惩罚。
政府指控马哈杜维在哥伦比亚大学校园抗议活动中”使用威胁性言论并恐吓支持以色列的旁观者”，但他对此予以否认。
另一名哥伦比亚大学活动人士、绿卡持有者马哈茂德·哈利勒（Mahmoud Khalil）于2025年3月被捕，目前正抗争驱逐令。一名移民法官于去年9月下令将其驱逐，他已提起上诉。此外，上月美国上诉法院法官推翻了一名联邦地区法官去年夏天将其从移民拘留中释放的裁决，但哈利勒预计会继续挑战这一决定。
就在上月，另一名移民法官还阻止了政府驱逐塔夫茨大学研究生吕梅萨·奥兹图尔克（Rümeysa Öztürk）的企图，原因是她发表了一篇批评该校对加沙战争应对措施的评论文章。
Judge blocks deportation of Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia
February 17, 2026 / 10:25 PM EST / CBS/AP
An immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian graduate student who led protests at Columbia University against Israel and the war in Gaza.
In a ruling made public by Mahdawi’s attorneys on Tuesday, the judge, Nina Froes, said she had terminated the case because of a procedural misstep by government attorneys, who failed to properly certify an official document they intended to use as evidence.
The Trump administration may appeal the decision. But the ruling marked the latest setback for the federal government’s sweeping effort to expel pro-Palestinian campus activists and others who expressed criticism of Israel.
Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident of the U.S. for the last decade, was arrested by immigration agents last April during what he thought was a citizenship interview. He was released two weeks later after an order from a federal judge.
In the months since, the government has continued its effort to deport him, citing a memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio arguing noncitizens can be expelled from the country if their presence may undermine U.S. foreign policy interests.
Government attorneys submitted a photocopy of the document to the immigration judge, but they failed to certify it as required under federal law, the judge wrote.
“I am grateful to the court for honoring the rule of law and holding the line against the government’s attempts to trample on due process,” Mahdawi said in a statement released by his attorneys. “This decision is an important step towards upholding what fear tried to destroy: the right to speak for peace and justice.”
Mahdawi has also mounted a separate case in federal district court arguing that he was unlawfully detained. That case remains ongoing, his lawyers said.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security who is leaving her post next week, cast Mahdawi as a leader of “pro-terrorist riots” whose visa should be revoked in a statement to The Associated Press.
“No activist judge, not this one or any other, is going to stop us from doing that,” she added.
The Trump administration has arrested and sought to deport several international students who participated in pro-Palestinian campus protests, accusing them of antisemitism and citing a federal law that lets the secretary of state block visas for people who could pose “adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” The students have sued the government over their detention, arguing they are being punished for First Amendment-protected speech.
The government has accused Mahdawi of “threatening rhetoric and intimidation of pro-Israeli bystanders” during protests on Columbia’s campus, which he has denied.
Another Columbia activist and green card-holder, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested in March 2025 and is currently fighting a bid to deport him. An immigration judge ordered him to be deported in September, which he is appealing. On a separate track, a U.S. district court judge freed him from immigration detention last summer, a ruling that was overturned by a panel of appellate judges last month, though Khalil is expected to challenge that move.
And last month, a separate immigration judge blocked the government’s attempt to deport a Tufts University graduate student, Rümeysa Öztürk, over an op-ed criticizing the school’s response to the war in Gaza.