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An immigration appeals board has issued a final order of removal for the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic protester Mahmoud Khalil. This decision advances the Trump administration’s determined effort to deport the execrable Columbia University graduate, according to his own legal team.
The Justice Department’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled on Thursday to deny Khalil’s bid to dismiss the case. It marks a significant development in the administration’s broader push to remove him from the United States, a place he does not belong.
Khalil, a thirty-one-year-old lawful permanent resident, has found himself at the center of a federal crackdown on noncitizens involved in anti-Israel campus protests tied to the war in Gaza. He was, after all, the first person whose arrest became publicly known as part of that crackdown.
His legal team wasted little time in blasting the decision. They called it “baseless and politically motivated,” insisting that the government is retaliating against his speech and lacks any real evidence to support the case [other than his disgusting hubris about Israel].
“In all my decades as an immigration lawyer, I have never seen such a baseless and politically motivated decision,” Khalil’s lead attorney, Marc Van Der Hout, said in a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union. “The BIA’s decision has absolutely no support in the record, violates a federal court order, and we’ll be fighting it until the end.”
The Trump administration, for its part, has argued that Khalil’s protest activity was “aligned with Hamas,” a claim cited repeatedly by the Department of Homeland Security and other officials, though authorities have not publicly detailed any specific evidence linking him to the terrorist group.
Khalil has also denied allegations of anti-Semitism. Officials have further invoked a rare foreign policy provision of U.S. immigration law, sometimes referred to as a “Rubio determination,” along with alleged issues tied to his green card application.
Despite the ruling, Khalil’s attorneys insist he cannot be deported while his separate federal habeas case continues to play out in court.
A federal judge in New Jersey previously found that the government’s justification for detaining Khalil was likely unconstitutional and ordered his release. After his arrest, Khalil spent 104 days in immigration detention, missing the birth of his first child, before that same judge ordered him freed.
Khalil later suffered a setback when a U.S. appeals panel ruled that the New Jersey judge had overstepped his authority. In a two-to-one decision, the panel held that the case must proceed through the immigration court system before it can be challenged in federal court. His lawyers are now requesting that the full appeals panel reconsider that decision. They have even asked one of the judges to step aside over his prior role as a Justice Department official involved in investigating student protesters.
Khalil himself has denied any wrongdoing and described the entire case as an attempt to silence him. After all, being an anti-Zionist isn't code for being an anti-Semite, right? Oh wait--it turns out it is.
“I am not surprised by this decision from the biased and politically motivated Board of Immigration Appeals,” he said in a statement released by the ACLU. “I have committed no crime. I have broken no law. The only thing I am guilty of is speaking out against the genocide in Palestine, and this administration has weaponized the immigration system to punish me for it.”
“In all my decades as an immigration lawyer, I have never seen such a baseless and politically motivated decision,” Khalil’s lead attorney, Marc Van Der Hout, said in a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union. “The BIA’s decision has absolutely no support in the record, violates a federal court order, and we’ll be fighting it until the end.”
The Trump administration, for its part, has argued that Khalil’s protest activity was “aligned with Hamas,” a claim cited repeatedly by the Department of Homeland Security and other officials, though authorities have not publicly detailed any specific evidence linking him to the terrorist group.
Khalil has also denied allegations of anti-Semitism. Officials have further invoked a rare foreign policy provision of U.S. immigration law, sometimes referred to as a “Rubio determination,” along with alleged issues tied to his green card application.
Despite the ruling, Khalil’s attorneys insist he cannot be deported while his separate federal habeas case continues to play out in court.
A federal judge in New Jersey previously found that the government’s justification for detaining Khalil was likely unconstitutional and ordered his release. After his arrest, Khalil spent 104 days in immigration detention, missing the birth of his first child, before that same judge ordered him freed.
Khalil later suffered a setback when a U.S. appeals panel ruled that the New Jersey judge had overstepped his authority. In a two-to-one decision, the panel held that the case must proceed through the immigration court system before it can be challenged in federal court. His lawyers are now requesting that the full appeals panel reconsider that decision. They have even asked one of the judges to step aside over his prior role as a Justice Department official involved in investigating student protesters.
Khalil himself has denied any wrongdoing and described the entire case as an attempt to silence him. After all, being an anti-Zionist isn't code for being an anti-Semite, right? Oh wait--it turns out it is.
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“I am not surprised by this decision from the biased and politically motivated Board of Immigration Appeals,” he said in a statement released by the ACLU. “I have committed no crime. I have broken no law. The only thing I am guilty of is speaking out against the genocide in Palestine, and this administration has weaponized the immigration system to punish me for it.”
“My family is here. My life is here,” he added. “I reject any attempt to intimidate me out of my home based on lies and ideological attacks. This is not justice. This is just another attempt to retaliate against me.”
Khalil, a prominent organizer of the anti-Israel protests that rocked Columbia University in 2024, was initially arrested in 2025 at his university-owned apartment in New York City. Homeland Security Investigations informed him at the time that they were revoking his green card, as he is merely a guest in this country.
Khalil, a prominent organizer of the anti-Israel protests that rocked Columbia University in 2024, was initially arrested in 2025 at his university-owned apartment in New York City. Homeland Security Investigations informed him at the time that they were revoking his green card, as he is merely a guest in this country.
He was later transferred to a detention centre in Louisiana.
He had played a major role in those protests and had even met with school officials on behalf of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition pushing the university to divest from Israel. He completed the requirements for a Columbia master’s degree in late 2024.
Born in Syria, he is the grandson of Palestinians who were forced to leave their homeland, his lawyers noted in a legal filing. His wife, an American citizen, gave birth to their child while he was still in detention.
He had played a major role in those protests and had even met with school officials on behalf of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition pushing the university to divest from Israel. He completed the requirements for a Columbia master’s degree in late 2024.
Born in Syria, he is the grandson of Palestinians who were forced to leave their homeland, his lawyers noted in a legal filing. His wife, an American citizen, gave birth to their child while he was still in detention.
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, previously defended the administration’s actions. She stated plainly that Khalil had allegedly distributed pro-Hamas propaganda fliers on campus, a place where it was unsafe for Jewish students to attend as they were attacked by anti-Israel anti-Semites.
“This administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans,” Leavitt told reporters. She noted that on her desk sat the very “pro-Hamas propaganda fliers with the logo of Hamas” that Khalil was accused of distributing because there is evidence that he was.
“We have a zero-tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period,” she said.
And Khalil is a terrorist supporter while not having the testicular magnitude to kill alongside them.
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