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Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is being deported to Syria or Algeria for failing to disclose certain information on his green card application, multiple reports on Thursday suggested.
The order in this regard was passed by an immigration judge in Louisiana, according to documents filed in federal court Wednesday by his lawyers.
Politico stated that Khalil’s lawyers suggested in a filing that they intend to appeal the deportation order. They, however, expressed concern that the appeal process will likely be swift and unfavourable.
MAHMOUD KHALIL AND THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROTESTS
Khalil has been one of the most prominent leaders of the US pro-Palestinian campus protests.
Last year, Columbia University found itself at the centre of a firestorm over claims of anti-Semitism triggered by campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
Some Jewish students claimed they were intimidated and that authorities did not act to protect them.
The university announced a wave of various student punishments, including expulsions and degree revocations, against nearly 80 students involved in the pro-Palestinian protest movement that has called on the university to divest from Israel.
Later, Mahmoud Khalil, himself a Columbia University graduate, sued the Donald Trump administration for $20 million over his arrest and detention by immigration agents.
Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States who is married to a US citizen, missed the birth of his son while being held in a federal immigration detention centre in Louisiana.
Khalil had been in custody following his arrest in March. The 30-year-old was freed in June, hours after a judge ordered his release on bail.
“The administration carried out its illegal plan to arrest, detain, and deport Mr. Khalil ‘in a manner calculated to terrorise him and his family,’ a claim read,” according to the Centre for Constitutional Rights, which backed Khalil.
Khalil suffered “severe emotional distress, economic hardship (and) damage to his reputation,” the claim added.
The Columbia University graduate was a figurehead of student protests against US ally Israel’s war in Gaza, and the Trump administration labelled him a national security threat.
Khalil called the lawsuit a “first step towards accountability.”
In July this year, Columbia University said it would pay $200 million to the US government after President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal funding over what he said was its unwillingness to protect Jewish students.
Columbia pledged to obey rules that bar it from taking race into consideration in admissions or hiring, among other concessions.
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