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   https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-protester-ruling-   
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   JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can   
   be forced out of the country as a national security risk, an immigration   
   judge in Louisiana ruled Friday after lawyers argued the legality of   
   deporting the activist who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.   
      
   The government’s contention that Khalil’s presence in the U.S. posed   
   “potentially serious foreign policy consequences” satisfied requirements   
   for deportation, Immigration Judge Jamee E. Comans said at a hearing in   
   Jena.   
      
   Comans said the government had “established by clear and convincing   
   evidence that he is removable.”   
      
   After the immigration court hearing, Khalil attorney Marc Van Der Hout   
   told a New Jersey federal judge that Khalil will appeal to the Board of   
   Immigration Appeals within weeks.   
      
   “So nothing is going to happen quickly,” he said.   
      
   Addressing the judge at the end of the immigration hearing, Khalil   
   recalled her saying at a hearing earlier in the week that “there’s nothing   
   more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental   
   fairness.”   
      
   “Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present   
   today or in this whole process,” he added. “This is exactly why the Trump   
   administration has sent me to the court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”   
      
   “Today, we saw our worst fears play out: Mahmoud was subject to a charade   
   of due process, a flagrant violation of his right to a fair hearing, and a   
   weaponization of immigration law to suppress dissent,” Van Der Hout said   
   in a statement.   
      
      
   Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, was detained by federal immigration agents   
   March 8 in the lobby of his university-owned apartment, the first arrest   
   under President Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on students who joined   
   campus protests against the war in Gaza.   
      
   Within a day, he was flown across the country to an immigration detention   
   center in Jena, far from his attorneys and wife, a U.S. citizen due to   
   give birth soon.   
      
   Khalil’s lawyers have challenged the legality of his detention, saying the   
   Trump administration is trying to block free speech protected by the First   
   Amendment.   
      
   Secretary of State Marco Rubio has cited a rarely used statute to justify   
   Khalil’s deportation, which gives him power to deport those who pose   
   “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United   
   States.”   
      
   At Friday’s hearing, Van Der Hout told the judge that the government’s   
   submissions to the court prove the attempt to deport his client “has   
   nothing to do with foreign policy” and said the government is trying to   
   deport him for protected speech.   
      
   Khalil, a Palestinian born and raised in Syria after his grandparents were   
   forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Tiberias, isn’t accused of   
   breaking any laws during the protests at Columbia.   
      
   The government, however, has said noncitizens who participate in such   
   demonstrations should be expelled from the country for expressing views   
   that the administration considers to be antisemitic and “pro-Hamas,”   
   referring to the Palestinian militant group that attacked Israel on Oct.   
   7, 2023.   
      
   Khalil, a 30-year-old international affairs graduate student, had served   
   as a negotiator and spokesperson for student activists at Columbia   
   University who took over a campus lawn last spring to protest Israel’s   
   military campaign in Gaza.   
      
   The university summoned police to dismantle the encampment after a small   
   group of protesters seized an administration building. Khalil is not   
   accused of participating in the building occupation and wasn’t among those   
   arrested.   
      
   But images of his maskless face at protests and his willingness to share   
   his name with reporters have drawn scorn from those who viewed the   
   protesters and their demands as antisemitic. The White House accused   
   Khalil of “siding with terrorists” but has yet to cite any support for the   
   claim.   
      
   Federal judges in New York and New Jersey have ordered the government not   
   to deport Khalil while his case plays out in multiple courts.   
      
   The Trump administration has said it is taking at least $400 million in   
   federal funding away from research programs at Columbia and its medical   
   center to punish it for not adequately fighting what it considers to be   
   antisemitism on campus.   
      
   Some Jewish students and faculty complained about being harassed during   
   the demonstrations or ostracized because of their faith or their support   
   of Israel.   
      
   Immigration authorities have cracked down on other critics of Israel on   
   college campuses, arresting a Georgetown University scholar who had spoken   
   out on social media about the Israel-Gaza war, canceling the student visas   
   of some protesters and deporting a Brown University professor who they   
   said had attended the Lebanon funeral of a leader of Hezbollah, another   
   militant group that has fought with Israel.   
      
      
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