Judge Rules Pro-Hamas Activist Mahmoud Khalil Can Be DEPORTED

This just in: a Louisiana immigration judge has just ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from the United States.

As you may remember, Mahmoud Khalil was a key figure in the violent pro-Hamas campus protests at Columbia university.

Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Khalil’s green card would be revoked and he would be deported from the United States for leading pro-terrorist, anti-American protests — the first of many deportations to come.

Shortly after that, a federal judge temporarily blocked Khalil from being deported. But now, an immigration court has decided that the deportation may proceed.

Check out the news:

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— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 11, 2025

BREAKING 🚨 Courts just ruled that Donald Trump can DEPORT Mahmoud Khalil out of America 🔥

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— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) April 11, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil is getting his anti American ass deported.

Bye bitch! pic.twitter.com/T4JlLffmBg

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) April 11, 2025

Per AP:

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be forced out of the country as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday after lawyers argued the legality of deporting the activist who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

The government’s contention that Khalil’s presence in the U.S. posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences” satisfied requirements for deportation, Immigration Judge Jamee E. Comans said at a hearing in Jena.

Comans said the government had “established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable.”

After the immigration court hearing, Khalil attorney Marc Van Der Hout told a New Jersey federal judge that Khalil will appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals within weeks.

“So nothing is going to happen quickly,” he said.

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Addressing the judge at the end of the immigration hearing, Khalil recalled her saying at a hearing earlier in the week that “there’s nothing more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness.”

“Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process,” he added. “This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to the court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”

Fox News has more details on the ruling:

An immigration judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from the U.S. due to his involvement in leading last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.

Judge Jamee Comans ruled in Louisiana on Friday that Khalil, 30, can be deported, saying that the U.S. government met its burden of proof to remove him.

“I would like to quote what you said last time that there’s nothing that’s more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness,” Khalil told the court. “Clearly, what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process.

“This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family. I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months.”

Khalil’s team of attorneys have until April 23 to file relief applications.

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During the hearing on Friday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attorneys also spoke about how Khalil misrepresented himself on his green card application. DHS attorneys said that Khalil was not upfront about some of the organizations he is involved with.

Khalil, they said, willfully failed to disclose his employment with the Syrian office in the British Embassy in Beirut when he applied for permanent U.S. residency.

Federal officials alleged that Khalil was “inadmissible at the time of his adjustment” because of “fraud or willful misrepresentation of material fact” in his status application.

The agency also accused Khalil of failing to disclose his work with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and membership in Columbia University Apartheid Divest.

Following the ruling, Khalil’s immigration attorney, Sabrine Mohamah, called the decision “unjust as it is alarming.”

“This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and a dangerous precedent for anyone who believes in free speech and political expression,” she said.

“Mahmood is currently imprisoned in Louisiana, a state that detains over 7,000 people daily and serves as the second-largest hub for immigration detention in the U.S. Louisiana’s nine detention centers, eight of which are privately operated, include the only ICE facility in the country directly connected to an airport, thus streamlining mass deportations across the state.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem also weighed in on the ruling, saying that the Columbia University graduate “hates America.”

“It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America. When you advocate for violence, glorify and support terrorists that relish the killing of Americans, and harass Jews, that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country,” she said. “Good riddance.”

Secretary Noem’s got that right.

“Good riddance.”

This is some great news, not only for the specific case but for the legal precedent being set here.

Essentially, if you are here in America on a student visa and you violate that by supporting terrorists, then you can kiss your time in America goodbye!

I’m all here for it.

What are your thoughts?