Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team has submitted multiple briefs and expert statements, and letters of support to the New Jersey court, outlining the irreparable harm he and others will continue to suffer as long as he remains illegally detained in Louisiana, thousands of miles away from his family. In addition, Mr. Khalil submitted his own declaration, factually disproving the government’s allegations and highlighting the fact that the government abandoned reliance on the so-called “misrepresentation” allegations in closing arguments in immigration court. The motion for release further explains that the court previously recognized that continued detention, based solely on the sorts of misrepresentations alleged by the government, is exceedingly rare and, the motion argued, is clearly only in further retaliation for his speech on Palestine., The Efforts to Erase Black History. By Erica L. Green, Karen Hanley, David Jouppi, Alexandra Ostasiewicz and Whitney Shefte , From slavery and its abolition to the Great Migration, the civil rights movement and military, scientific, cultural and political achievements, explore key moments, milestones and figures in.