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But Taurel said the judge believed his hands were tied by an earlier ruling in Khalil\u2019s case, which found that a letter from the Secretary of State could be enough to make someone deportable on foreign policy grounds.That meant Salinardi could not look behind Rubio\u2019s decision to examine the evidence supporting it, Taurel said.\u201cIf the Secretary of State says the person is deportable, it is game over,\u201d he told reporters Wednesday.The government did not win on all of its arguments.Salinardi rejected its allegation that Sarsour had lied on his green card application. 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His former lawyer, Jawad Boulos, testified in August that Sarsour was coerced into signing confessions and was not convicted of an offence tying him to a \u201cterrorist\u201d organisation.Taurel criticised Salinardi for giving what he called \u201cextreme deference\u201d to Israeli government records submitted by ICE, which Sarsour\u2019s lawyers argue were incomplete and relied on confessions obtained through torture.\u201cA great deal of evidence we presented was ignored,\u201d Taurel said.The evidence challenged Israel\u2019s military court system, where he said secret evidence can be used and Palestinians can be denied access to lawyers for extended periods.Luna Droubi, an attorney representing Sarsour, said the case raises broader questions about whether immigrants can speak freely on political issues without fear of being targeted by the government.\u201cWhy raise these arrests now?\u201d she said. \u201cDo I have the right to speak out about issues that matter to me? 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But Taurel said the judge believed his hands were tied by an earlier ruling in Khalil\u2019s case, which found that a letter from the Secretary of State could be enough to make someone deportable on foreign policy grounds.That meant Salinardi could not look behind Rubio\u2019s decision to examine the evidence supporting it, Taurel said.\u201cIf the Secretary of State says the person is deportable, it is game over,\u201d he told reporters Wednesday.The government did not win on all of its arguments.Salinardi rejected its allegation that Sarsour had lied on his green card application. 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Taurel said the judge also rejected an allegation that Sarsour had falsely claimed to be a US citizen in order to vote.Al Jazeera reached out to the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security but did not receive responses by the time of publication.Decades-old convictionsSarsour is separately fighting the Trump administration in federal court over his detention while his deportation case is ongoing.A federal judge ordered his release from ICE custody in June after 81 days, questioning why decades-old convictions that US authorities had long known about suddenly justified detaining him. The judge found there was a \u201csubstantial\u201d case that the government was retaliating against him for speaking out about Palestinian rights.The Trump administration has appealed his release, arguing that Sarsour\u2019s convictions in Israel make him a security threat. 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His former lawyer, Jawad Boulos, testified in August that Sarsour was coerced into signing confessions and was not convicted of an offence tying him to a \u201cterrorist\u201d organisation.Taurel criticised Salinardi for giving what he called \u201cextreme deference\u201d to Israeli government records submitted by ICE, which Sarsour\u2019s lawyers argue were incomplete and relied on confessions obtained through torture.\u201cA great deal of evidence we presented was ignored,\u201d Taurel said.The evidence challenged Israel\u2019s military court system, where he said secret evidence can be used and Palestinians can be denied access to lawyers for extended periods.Luna Droubi, an attorney representing Sarsour, said the case raises broader questions about whether immigrants can speak freely on political issues without fear of being targeted by the government.\u201cWhy raise these arrests now?\u201d she said. \u201cDo I have the right to speak out about issues that matter to me? 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Taurel said he can\u2019t be deported while that appeal is pending and will remain in the US for the \u201cforeseeable future\u201d.\u2018Extreme deference\u2019Sarsour was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Milwaukee in March, nine months after Rubio issued a memo declaring him deportable on foreign policy grounds.The June 2025 memo invoked a rarely-used US law that allows the Secretary of State to seek the deportation of non-citizens whose presence could have \u201cpotentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.\u201d The administration has used the same provision against pro-Palestinian activists Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi.Sarsour\u2019s lawyers criticised the \u201cextreme deference\u201d Salinardi gave to Rubio\u2019s memo. But Taurel said the judge believed his hands were tied by an earlier ruling in Khalil\u2019s case, which found that a letter from the Secretary of State could be enough to make someone deportable on foreign policy grounds.That meant Salinardi could not look behind Rubio\u2019s decision to examine the evidence supporting it, Taurel said.\u201cIf the Secretary of State says the person is deportable, it is game over,\u201d he told reporters Wednesday.The government did not win on all of its arguments.Salinardi rejected its allegation that Sarsour had lied on his green card application. Taurel said the judge also rejected an allegation that Sarsour had falsely claimed to be a US citizen in order to vote.Al Jazeera reached out to the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security but did not receive responses by the time of publication.Decades-old convictionsSarsour is separately fighting the Trump administration in federal court over his detention while his deportation case is ongoing.A federal judge ordered his release from ICE custody in June after 81 days, questioning why decades-old convictions that US authorities had long known about suddenly justified detaining him. The judge found there was a \u201csubstantial\u201d case that the government was retaliating against him for speaking out about Palestinian rights.The Trump administration has appealed his release, arguing that Sarsour\u2019s convictions in Israel make him a security threat. 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