Immigration Judge: Deport Khalil to Syria or Algeria

An immigration judge in Louisiana ordered Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil be deported to Syria or Algeria for failing to disclose certain information on his green card application, multiple media outlets reported.

Khalil is a former Columbia University graduate student whose case has been at the center of the Trump administration's crackdown on noncitizens leading campus protests of Israel's military operation against Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Khalil, whose wife is a U.S. citizen, was arrested in March by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his apartment building in New York City and released in June. The Trump administration vowed to deport him using a rarely used provision in immigration law that allows for noncitizens to be deported if their presence in the U.S. compromises foreign policy.