Khalil addressed the court after the ruling, saying that neither “fundamental fairness” nor due process “were present today or in this whole process.” “This is exactly why the Trump administration sent me to this court 1,000 miles away from my family,” said Khalil, whose wife, a U.S. citizen, is due to give birth to their first child this month.
Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be kicked out of the U.S. as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana found Friday during a hearing over the legality of deporting the activist who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded on behalf of the government in a roughly one-and-a-half-page letter sent to the court on Wednesday. He cited a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to justify Khalil's removal from the U.S.
