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Immigration Judge Orders Mahmoud Khalil To Be Deported To One Of Two Countries
An immigration judge has ordered pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to either Algeria or Syria.
The judge said Khalil failed to disclose information on his green card application.
Khalil’s lawyers intend on appealing the deportation order.
BREAKING: Judge orders Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria, alleging he omitted information from his green card application. https://t.co/UtoI7M5PUs
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 18, 2025
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The order from the immigration judge, Jamee Comans, came despite a separate order in Khalil’s federal case in New Jersey blocking his deportation while that court considers Khalil’s legal argument that his detention and deportation are unlawful retaliation for his Palestinian advocacy.
Khalil’s March 8 arrest and subsequent detention in Louisiana was part of the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on foreign-born pro-Palestinian academics who were studying or working in the U.S. legally. Khalil, a former Columbia graduate student who helped organize campus protests, was arrested at his Manhattan residence and put into deportation proceedings. He has not been charged with a crime.
In a letter to the New Jersey federal judge, Michael Farbiarz, Khalil’s lawyers said they have 30 days from Sept. 12, the date of the immigration judge’s ruling, to appeal her decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The lawyers said they expect that process to be “swift” and that an appeal of the BIA decision, which would go to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, is unlikely to be successful, since, they wrote, the appeals court “almost never” grants stays of removal to noncitizens.
“It is hereby further ordered that respondent be removed from the United States to Algeria, or in the alternative to Syria,” the judge wrote, according to The Guardian.
Khalil is married to a U.S. citizen and has a U.S.-born son.
The judge ruled Khalil willfully misrepresented materially fact(s) in his green card application.
Immigration judge rules Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Syria or Algeria citing green card fraud: court docs https://t.co/rNl3iG4ycc pic.twitter.com/uxKCYJsGbN
— New York Post (@nypost) September 18, 2025
Al Jazeera provided further info:
Khalil, a native of Syria and an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin, has previously said he fears being targeted by Israel for his activism if he is deported to either country.
Judge Comans claimed that Khalil did not disclose his ties to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest, an activist group which advocates for an economic boycott of Israel, on his green card application, describing it as a “lack of candor” by the applicant.
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