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US immigration judge to rule Friday on release of detained anti-Israel Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil
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An immigration judge in Louisiana says she will decide later this week whether the government can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University activist facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel campus protests.
At an immigration hearing in Louisiana, Judge Jamee Comans gives the federal government until Wednesday to turn over its evidence gathered against Khalil, a 30-year-old legal US resident.
If the evidence against Khalil does not support his removal, Comans says, “then I am going to terminate the case on Friday.”
On March 8, Khalil became the first in a growing number of foreign-born students targeted for deportation by the Trump administration for participating in campus protests against Israel and the war in Gaza.
The Times of Israel Community.