A US immigration judge orders the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-Israel protest leader at Columbia University in New York City.
Khalil became a high-profile figure after his arrest by the Trump administration in March. He has waged a legal battle against deportation since then.
The immigration judge in one of his case, Jamee Comans, orders Khalil be deported to Algeria or Syria.
Comans says the grounds for the deportation include that Khalil committed “fraud” during the immigration process by deliberately concealing his ties to the UN agency for the Palestinians, UNRWA, and Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of anti-Israel campus activists.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also said Khalil’s presence in the US could hurt foreign policy, the judge says.
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