Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is being held in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana more than a thousand miles away from where the 30-year-old was arrested in New York in early March. Here’s what to know about the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, where he’s being detained while he fights to stay in the U.S.

The ICE facilities where Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and Georgetown University fellow Badar Khan Suri are held have a history of reported abuse and inhumane conditions, experts say.

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist being held in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, are fighting to have the case heard in New Jersey.

The government wants the detainee’s case heard in Louisiana, where an appellate judge may be friendlier. At a hearing in Newark, one of his lawyers called the situation “Kafkaesque.”

As U.S. authorities crack down on immigrants at universities in a fervor against pro-Palestinian protests, they quickly have shuttled some of those detained to remote facilities in Louisiana.

The Trump administration has sought to deport Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil for leading the pro-Palestinian protests and sit-ins at the Ivy League institution.