Anti-Israel Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, judge rules, but it won’t happen immediately

(NY Post) Mahmoud Khalil can be deported over his involvement in anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University, an immigration judge ruled Friday in the closely watched case.

The ruling in Louisiana immigration court came in the government’s bid to boot the Syrian-born permanent resident out of the US over his anti-Israel activism at Columbia.

Judge Jamee Comans said during the two-hour hearing Friday that the feds had “established by clear and convincing evidence that [Khalil] is removable.”

Khalil asked to speak to Comans at the end of the hearing, according to his lawyers, arguing she had not given him “the due process and fundamental fairness” she said were so important at a prior hearing Tuesday.

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