Ivy League anti-Israel ringleader Mahmoud Khalil withheld details of foreign ties from visa application: feds

The Trump medication has accused Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University pupil and anti-Israel protester, of failing to disclose his employment with a United Nations Palestinian alleviation bureau connected his visa application, alleging this omission warrants deportation.

Khalil, a 30-year-old greenish paper holder who is joined to a U.S. citizen, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials connected March 8. In a tribunal little dated Sunday, the U.S. authorities outlined its arguments for keeping Khalil successful custody portion his removal proceedings continue.

The section says Khalil fraudulently applied to alteration his migration presumption without afloat disclosing his "membership successful definite organization," which could beryllium grounds for deportation.

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Mahmoud Khalil allegedly played a large relation successful the protests against Israel astatine Columbia University.  (Ted Shaffrey, file)

Among those organizations was the United Nation's Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The alleviation bureau was infamously stripped of tens of millions of dollars successful national backing aft Israel claimed that 12 of its members took portion successful Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel. The DOJ says Khalil did not disclose that helium was a governmental serviceman of UNRWA from June 2023-Nov.. 2023.

The DOJ besides says Khalil did not uncover helium was moving astatine the Syria bureau successful the British embassy successful Beirut, Lebanon, erstwhile helium applied for a visa oregon that helium was a subordinate of Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which led anti-Israel protests astatine the Ivy League institution. 

The DOJ said Sunday that the information helium allegedly lied connected his exertion provided an "independent basis" to deport him, overriding escaped code rights.

"Regardless of his allegations concerning governmental speech, Khalil withheld rank successful definite organizations and failed to disclose continuing employment by the Syria Office successful the British Embassy successful Beirut erstwhile helium submitted his accommodation of presumption application," they said. "It is black-letter instrumentality that misrepresentations successful this discourse are not protected speech."

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"Thus, Khalil’s First Amendment allegations are a reddish herring, and determination is an autarkic ground to warrant removal capable to foreclose Khalil’s law assertion here," they said.

Students march connected Columbia University field successful enactment of a protestation encampment supporting Palestinians, contempt a 2 p.m. deadline issued by assemblage officials to disband oregon look suspension, during the ongoing struggle betwixt Israel and the Palestinian Islamist radical Hamas, successful New York City, U.S., April 29, 2024. (REUTERS/David Dee Delgado)

Khalil, a autochthonal of Syria and national of Algeria, entered the U.S. connected a pupil visa successful 2022 and aboriginal filed to go a imperishable nonmigratory successful 2024.

He is the archetypal successful the Trump administration's crusade to revoke pupil visas for participating successful protests.

People show extracurricular Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, connected the time of a proceeding connected the detention of Palestinian activistic and Columbia University postgraduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil, successful New York City, U.S., March 12, 2025. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

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

"To each the nonmigratory aliens who joined successful the pro-jihadist protests, we enactment you connected notice: travel 2025, we volition find you, and we volition deport you," Trump is quoted successful a information expanse issued by the White House. "I volition besides rapidly cancel the pupil visas of each Hamas sympathizers connected assemblage campuses, which person been infested with radicalism similar ne'er before."

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to Khalil's attorney, Marc Van Der Hout, for comment.