JENA, La. — The Trump administration said Friday that it will continue to detain Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil, after a federal judge ruled that he could not be held based on the U.S. secretary of state’s determination that he could harm American foreign policy.

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,

Lawyers for a former Columbia University graduate student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests asked a US judge to release him after the government failed to file an appeal by a Friday deadline.