The Trump administration's spree of shipping foreign troublemakers continues to roll on, as an immigration judge has ordered that the former Columbia University graduate student who became an outspoken anti-Israel activist be deported.
As we previously reported, a previous ruling found that, despite his status as a legal U.S. resident, Mahmoud Khalil can be deported. Khalil's attorneys had managed to prevent his deportation thus far, but the latest ruling may leave him with a one-way ticket out of the country.
NBC News has more details:
Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student whose case has been at the center of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration and on vocal opponents of Israel's war in Gaza, was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in March and released in June.
Immigration Judge Jamee Comans, based out of Jena, Louisiana, on Friday denied Khalil's motion for a waiver preventing his removal from the United States because of alleged misrepresentations made in an application for an adjustment of status.
Khalil found himself in hot water earlier this year with his role in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia, later becoming one of the faces of the Trump administration's immigration policy legal battles. He may have filed paperwork for an adjustment of status, but apparently not to the judge's satisfaction.
In that order, Comans cited that on June 20, the court issued a written decision denying Khalil's application for asylum and ordered he be removed to Algeria and Syria.
She doubled down on that ruling, saying the court found Khalil's 'lack of candor on his I-485 form was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.' The form is an application to register permanent residence or adjust status.
'Rather, this Court finds that Respondent willfully misrepresented material fact(s) for the sole purpose of circumventing the immigration process and reducing the likelihood his applications could be denied. This Court cannot and will not condone such an action by granting a discretionary waiver,' Comans said.
Khalil's attorneys now have 30 days from the Friday order to file an appeal.
At this point, why not just go to Algeria or Syria?
He'd be right at home.
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