Attorneys for the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil requested that a federal judge immediately release him on bail, or else transfer him to New Jersey to be closer to his family, as the Trump administration seeks to keep him in custody in Louisiana.

Columbia University graduate and activist Mahmoud Khalil said the Trump administration "chose the wrong person" to target in its crackdown on student protesters as he was released on bail after more than three months in detention.

A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday ordered that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil must be released from detention.