Columbia anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, judge rules

An migration justice has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil tin beryllium deported from the United States owed to his engagement successful starring past year’s pro-Palestinian protests astatine Columbia University.

Judge Jamee Comans successful Louisiana ruled connected Friday that Khalil, 30, tin beryllium deported, saying that the U.S. authorities met its load of impervious to region him.

Khalil's squad of attorneys person until April 23 to record alleviation applications.

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Columbia University pupil Mahmoud Khalil talks to the property during the property briefing organized by pro-Palestinian protesters who acceptable up a caller encampment astatine Columbia University's Morningside Heights field connected Friday evening, successful New York City, United States connected June 1, 2024.  (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

On Tuesday, Comans ordered the national authorities to supply grounds by Wednesday justifying its effort to deport Khalil.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded connected behalf of the authorities successful a astir one-and-a-half-page missive sent to the tribunal connected Wednesday. He cited a proviso successful the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to warrant Khalil's removal from the U.S. 

The proviso allows the Secretary of State to deport noncitizens if the caput determines their beingness successful the U.S. "would person superior adverse overseas argumentation consequences."

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Rubio accused Khalil of participating successful "antisemitic protests and disruptive activities, which fosters a hostile situation for Jewish students successful the United States."

"Condoning antisemitic behaviour and disruptive protests successful the United States would severely undermine that important overseas argumentation objective," Rubio wrote.

President Donald Trump hosts his archetypal furniture gathering arsenic helium sits adjacent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio successful Washington, D.C. connected Feb. 26, 2025.  (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

Khalil's attorneys person argued that the government's detention of the Columbia University postgraduate is "extraordinary and unprecendented" and that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952's scope is "breathtaking."

"President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio could use it to immoderate code supporting Palestinian rights by immoderate noncitizen. And the argumentation provides nary standards oregon announcement arsenic to what circumstantial statements mightiness taxable noncitizens to this unprecedented determination," they wrote. 

They argued that, if pursued, deportation could effect successful a "chilling effect connected governmental debate."

"Many noncitizens crossed the country—including lawful imperishable residents similar Mr. Khalil—now unrecorded successful fearfulness that they volition beryllium adjacent if their existent oregon imputed code brings them into the crosshairs of this administration, and galore are choosing to enactment soundless astir their strongly-held beliefs," they said.

Anti-Israel agitators stitchery connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Monday, April 22, 2024.   (Peter Gerber)

He is the archetypal successful the Trump administration's crusade to revoke pupil visas for participating successful protests. The Department of Homeland Security alleged that helium "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated violent organization."

The anti-Israel protests wreaked havoc connected assemblage campuses pursuing the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, starring to Trump's run committedness to revoke foreigners' pupil visas.

Khalil has maintained his innocence passim the hearings, penning a blistering op-ed published successful the school's newspaper. The op-ed, titled simply "A missive to Columbia," accused the instauration of "laying the groundwork for my abduction."

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He went connected to comparison Trump's crackdown connected anti-Israel protesters to Columbia's ain apathy toward Palestinians, listing different students who person been "snatched by the state."

"The concern is oddly reminiscent of erstwhile I fled the brutality of Bashar al-Assad’s authorities successful Syria and sought refuge successful Lebanon," Khalil wrote. "The logic utilized by the national authorities to people myself and my peers is simply a nonstop hold of Columbia’s repression playbook concerning Palestine."

He went connected to impeach Columbia administrators of manufacturing "public hysteria astir antisemitism without erstwhile mentioning the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered nether bombs made of your dollars."

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The connection came weeks aft ICE agents detained Khalil successful New York City successful aboriginal March. 

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to Khalil's attorney, Baher Amzy, and DHS for comment.