Immigration judge finds that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported

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.

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An immigration judge in Louisiana found Friday that Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be kicked out of the U.S. as a national security risk

The judge said that the government’s contention that Khalil’s presence in the United States posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences” was enough to satisfy requirements for his deportation

Lawyers for Khalil said they plan to keep fighting and will seek a waiver. And a federal judge in New Jersey has temporarily barre