Khalil, who has been held in a detention center in Louisiana, requested a two-week furlough, noting that his wife had gone into labor earlier than expected.

Dr. Noor Abdalla said she welcomed the couple's son Monday without his father, despite a request for ICE to allow him to attend the birth.

The wife of detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is accusing federal immigration officials of purposely denying a request for her husband to attend the birth of their first child so the family would suffer.