A federal judge on Friday refused to release Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail in rural Louisiana. Earlier last week, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled the government’s continued imprisonment of Khalil over his Palestinian rights activism would be found unconstitutional, raising hope for his release, but Farbianz did still accept the Justice Department’s rationale for keeping Khalil locked up for alleged fraud on his 2024 green card application over what it claims were undeclared affiliations. Khalil’s lawyer called the Trump administration’s tactics targeting Khalil “unjust, shocking, and disgraceful.”