Columbia Grad Student Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation Case Will Go to Supreme Court, Expert Predicts

April 16, 2025 by Kateri

Demonstrators gather in Columbus Circle in solidarity and to demand the release of detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil on April 12, 2025 in New York City. An immigration judge ruled that Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk, based on the government’s argument that his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences.

The case may help define what rights noncitizens have in the United States.

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