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US Judge Rules Pro-Palestine Student Activist Can Be Deported

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Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident and university graduate student, has been deemed eligible for deportation by an immigration judge. The ruling is based on the Trump administration's claim that a memo written by Marco Rubio stated Khalil's beliefs, statements, and associations were counter to foreign policy interests. Khalil was detained by federal immigration agents in March after participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which the government claims pose "potentially serious foreign policy consequences."

    1. There is no indication that Congress contemplated an immigration judge or even the attorney general overruling the secretary of state on matters of foreign policy.
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    2. I know this probably sounds very foreign to you – it did to me as well – and not what we are used to, but we are in different times now.
    1. President Trump made it clear: Americans deserve a government committed to serving every individual with dignity and respect, and to expending taxpayer resources in accordance with the national interest, not arbitrary criteria.
    1. So nothing is going to happen quickly in the immigration proceeding even though she's found him removable on the foreign policy grounds.
    2. This is not over, and our fight continues.
    3. Mahmoud was subject to a charade of due process, a flagrant violation of his right to a fair hearing and a weaponization of immigration law to suppress dissent.
    1. No person should be deemed removable from their home for speaking out against the killing of Palestinian families, doctors and journalists.
US Judge Rules Pro-Palestine Student Activist Can Be Deported