After being arrested by masked ICE agents, the State Department ruled that the Trump administration had no grounds to deport Turkish Tufts University student.
The court also refrained from ruling on the permissibility of the slogan " From the river to the sea," commonly used at pro-Palestine protests.
This comes after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Khalil's “otherwise lawful” views conflict with the Trump administration's policy on antisemitism.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended deporting Mahmoud Khalil, saying his “otherwise lawful” views conflict with US policy on antisemitism, even without criminal charges.
Foreign students lose US visas as the administration cracks down on antisemitism and terror support online.
ADL and Hillel must stop undermining the president’s actions, and the Jewish community should be thanking Trump.
President Donald Trump kicked off a sweeping immigration crackdown after taking office in January, testing the bounds of US law to increase arrests and deportations.
Mahmoud Khalil accused Columbia University of creating a "manufactured public hysteria about antisemitism" and likened the school to a Nazi collaborationist government.
An "administrative error" saw a Maryland father deported to an El Salvador prison known for human rights violations.
The Cornell University student's attorneys said last month that he was asked to turn himself in and that his student visa was being revoked.
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