A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration's detention of Palestinian freedom activist Mahmoud Khalil this week — but the administration has said it has no plans to release him in response to that ruling,

The Trump administration does not plan to release pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, officials wrote in a letter Friday, despite a federal judge’s ruling that Khalil could not be held or removed from the country on the basis that he poses a threat to national security.

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration cannot keep detaining Columbia University student in this manner.