Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-khalil-deported-judge-rubio-antisemitism-immigration-court

A Louisiana immigration judge ruled Friday that activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.

Khalil, who as a Columbia University graduate student led pro-Palestinian protests there last year, was detained last month after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had determined that Khalil's activism was antisemitic and that allowing him to remain in the country would undermine a U.S. foreign policy goal of combatting antisemitism around the world.

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After the ruling, Khalil told the judge, "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. 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," he added. "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."

[Nevilledog]

1. Grave injustice.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Agree. The end of the First Amendment.

[Ninga]

3. Double speak from the judge? Khalil's statement

sure nails it.
Rubio a coward himself must be so proud to be a handmaiden for MAGA…

Just a sad sad sad ruling.

[OrlandoDem2]

4. So if you protest for the KKK, a terrorist organization that's antisemitic, will you be deported?

None of this makes sense!

I hope he appeals!!

[JohnSJ]

5. This would never have happened if VP Harris won. I recall during the protesters

walked up to a reporter between their “genocide Joe, and Genocide Kamala”, went up to the reporter and cameraman and loudly proclaimed that Biden/Harris would not get their vote, and “enjoy trump” was his his chant.

Those with that mindset contributed to this, and it a perfect example of cutting off one’s nose to spite their face.

[bluestarone]

6. So, now do we see we were RIGHT about courts in Louisiana?

THIS is why they wanted him in that state. FUCK these bastards!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. 'Pawns': Critics blast 'fake' judge who ruled Trump can deport Columbia activist

The "judge" who issued this order is an immigration "judge" who was appointed by trump after trump purged all competent immigration judge. This judge is doing what he was ordered to do by trump and knows that if he rules against trump on this or any other issue, he will be removed.

This ruling will be appealed to a real judge who is not controlled by trump.
https://bsky.app/profile/realtuckfrumper.bsky.social/post/3lmkyc7orbj2c

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/mahmoud-khalil-2671753774/

A federal immigration judge’s ruling on Friday that allowed the Trump administration to move forward with the deportation of former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was roundly criticized by legal observers stunned by the decision.

The ruling greenlighting the deportation of the 30-year-old legal U.S. resident came at the end of a hearing in Louisiana as Immigration Judge Jamee E. Comans concluded that the government “established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable,” according to The Associated Press.

But not all were swayed by the judge’s legal reading of the case, which marked the first in a string of arrests at universities nationwide of students living in the U.S. as permanent residents in an escalation of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown......

“The fake judge (a DOJ Immigration Judge) ruled this, and he is only empowered to interpret immigration law, not the Constitution,” Cato Institute immigration expert David Bier wrote on X.

Civil rights attorney Scott Hechinger told his own X followers that it was “really critical to understand 2 things about the Mahmoud Khalil ruling.”

“1. Immigration judges are *not nominated & confirmed.* They are political appointees of the Executive. 2. Trump purged all immigration judges he didn’t like at the outset of his admin. They’re all pawns,” he said.

This ruling will be appealed