A federal judge of New Jersey issued a preliminary court order that prohibits the Trump administration from deporting or continuing to stop the pro-palestinian activist at Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil.

In his ruling issued on Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz is prohibiting that the administration seek to eliminate Khalil according to the determination of the Secretary of State for Marco Rubio that his continuous presence in the country would represent a risk to foreign policy.

The judge remains in his mandate until 9:30 am on Friday. The moment gives the Trump administration about 40 hours to appeal the decision before Khalil should be released, their lawyers said.

The preliminary judicial order will enter into force once Khalil publishes a “nominal bonus for an amount of $ 1,” said the judge’s order.

Khalil, a green card holder who is married to an American citizen, was held in a Louisian detention center since ICE agents arrested him in the lobby of his apartment building in New York City on March 8.

In April, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Khalil is deportable based on Rubio’s statement that his presence and continuous actions in the country represent an “adverse consequence of foreign policy.” The judge has not yet ruled on a second set of positions that come from the accusations of the National Security Department that Khalil held information about his green card application.

But Farbiar declared in his ruling that permanent legal residents, such as Khalil, accused of making misrepresentations in their applications, “practically never stopped pending elimination.”

Khalil’s lawyers described the judge’s decision to grant their motion for the preliminary court order a “great victory.”

“We are relieved that the court documented what was obvious to the world, which is that the arrest, detention and attempt to deportation of the Government’s Mahmoud for its Palestinian activism is causing him to his family and his family agonizing personal and professional damage,” Baher Azmy, legal director of the Constitutional Rights Center, said in a statement.

Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, who gave birth to her first child, while Khalil has been arrested, said she hopes she can experience her first day of the father at home with her family.

“Mahmoud must be released immediately and safely to New York to be with me and our newborn baby, Deen,” Abdalla said in a statement on Wednesday. “True justice would mean that Mahmoud was never removed in the first place, that no Palestinian father, from New York to Gaza, would have to endure the painful separation of prison walls like Mahmoud.”

President Donald Trump’s administration officials said Khalil was arrested for his supposed support for Hamas, a claim that his legal team has rejected.

In a memorandum presented in the case, Rubio wrote that Khalil should be deported due to his supposed role in “anti -Semitic protests and disruptive activities, which encourages a hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.”

During an audience last month in Louisiana, Khalil testified in support of his asylum case and for retention of the extraction of Algeria or Syria, where he grew up in a field of Palestinian refugees.

He repeatedly declared that the accusations of the Trump administration that he is a supporter of Hamas makes him an objective for Israel in any country to which he can be deported. In Syria, he also said that the remains of the Assad regime, as well as the military factions within the country, could attack it or that could be used as a “negotiation chip” in negotiations between the new Syrian government and other nations, including the United States.

Before the hearing, Khalil’s lawyer filed more than 600 pages of documents, statements and analysis of experts who support his statement that he is not anti -Semitic and that he could face torture and death if he were deported.