US immigration judge rules recent Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
A Louisiana immigration judge ruled on Friday that the United States can deport Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, according to the
Khalil will not be deported immediately. Judge Jamee Comans said she had no authority to question Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s determination that Khalil should be deported, but gave Khalil’s lawyers until April 23 to further press his case, according to
Immigration officials detained Khalil, a prominent 30-year-old pro-Palestinian student activist, in the lobby of his university-owned apartment complex on March 8. Shortly thereafter, he was transported thousands of miles away to an immigration detention center in Jena, Louisiana, where he is currently being held, away from his U.S. citizen wife who is expected to give birth this month.
Khalil, a lawful permanent resident who completed his master's degree in December, was the first of several students
Rubio said in a two-page memo submitted to the immigration court that Khalil has
Rubio invoked a rarely used provision of
In addition to Khalil’s immigration case in Louisiana, his attorneys have also filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in New Jersey over whether he should have been arrested and detained.
