Chloë G. K. Atkins

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins

May 28, 2025, 11:43 PM EDTA New Jersey federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration's effort to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional, but stopped short of releasing him from detainment.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Daniella Silva |Rebecca Lee Byrd

May 22, 2025, 8:49 PM EDTColumbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be protected from deportation, which could put his life at risk, his attorneys argued Thursday. Ahead of a critical court hearing before an immigration judge in Louisiana that focused on whether Khalil was entitled to relief from deportation, including through asylum, Khalil met and held his newborn son for the first time. The Trump administration had sought to have the two separated by a plexiglass barrier.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Kimmy Yam |Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins

A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal statuses of international students at universities across the U.S. In the injunction, senior district judge Jeffrey S. White also prohibited the administration from arresting or detaining any foreign-born students on the bases of their immigration status while an ongoing case challenging previous terminations moves through the courts.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Laura Strickler |Didi Martinez |Julia Ainsley |Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins

May 20, 2025, 7:14 PM EDTFor the second time in less than two weeks immigration lawyers have gone to federal court to try and stop the Trump Administration from deporting a small group of immigrants from the U.S. to a war-torn country not their own. Immigration attorneys told the court that at least two of their clients, from Myanmar and Vietnam, were deported Tuesday morning to South Sudan in violation of a court order, and they demanded their return.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins

May 19, 2025, 10:32 PM EDTColumbia University student Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team on Monday released new footage of the minutes leading up to his March arrest that they say contradicts the government’s argument that he was a flight risk, which officials had said justified his detainment without an arrest warrant. The Columbia activist who helped organize pro-Palestinian rallies on campus a year ago has been held in a detention center in Louisiana for two months.