Big win for Marco Rubio and the US State Department.
A judge ruled that the high profile Columbia graduate student who was arrested can be deported.
He has an American wife, and she is pregnant. So there has been plenty of hand wringing and gnashing of teeth over his arrest. Now that a judge has ruled he can be deported it is very likely the liberal tears will starting flowing again.
It should be noted it is alleged this guy actually organized the illegal encampments, illegal building takeover at Columbia, confrontations with American Jewish students depriving them of their civil rights, etc.
Full story at the link for currently government funded mouthpiece of the Democratic Party called NPR ^^^
A judge ruled that the high profile Columbia graduate student who was arrested can be deported.
He has an American wife, and she is pregnant. So there has been plenty of hand wringing and gnashing of teeth over his arrest. Now that a judge has ruled he can be deported it is very likely the liberal tears will starting flowing again.
It should be noted it is alleged this guy actually organized the illegal encampments, illegal building takeover at Columbia, confrontations with American Jewish students depriving them of their civil rights, etc.
Full story at the link for currently government funded mouthpiece of the Democratic Party called NPR ^^^
Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
Adrian FloridoUpdated April 11, 20254:13 PM ET
Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York, April 29, 2024.
Ted Shaffrey/APA Louisiana immigration judge ruled Friday that activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.
Khalil, who as a Columbia University graduate student led pro-Palestinian protests there last year, was detained last month after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had determined that Khalil's activism was antisemitic and that allowing him to remain in the country would undermine a U.S. foreign policy goal of combatting antisemitism around the world.
During a hearing at the remote Louisiana detention center where Khalil is being held, Judge Jamee Comans said she had no authority to question Rubio's determination.
After the ruling, Khalil told the judge, "I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's 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.
"This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family," he added. "I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months."
Khalil will not immediately be deported. His attorneys have said that if he were ordered deported, they would appeal the judge's ruling. Comans gave Khalil until April 23 to request a stay of his deportation if his attorneys believe he qualifies for one. And the judge said if they don't meet that deadline, she will order him deported either to Syria, where he was born, or to Algeria, where he is a citizen. . .
