NATIONAL REVIEW
Immigration Court Gets It Right on Mahmoud Khalil Deportation Call
Andrew McCarthy
April 12, 2025

An immigration judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration may deport Mahmoud Khalil, the legal alien who became a fixture in the pro-Hamas campus agitation at Columbia University. This is just the first step in the removal process, though an important one. There will now be an appeal in the immigration tribunal, and challenges in the judicial courts…Khalil carried himself as a senior associate of Columbia University Apartheid Divest. As the New York Times reports, CUAD expressly backs “armed resistance” by Hamas and recently rescinded an apology it had offered after one of its members said Columbia should be “grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” READ MORE