An immigration judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil be deported to Algeria or Syria, alleging he omitted information from his green card application, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student whose case has been at the center of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and on vocal opponents of Israel’s war in Gaza, was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in March and released in June.

Immigration judge Jamee Comans, based out of Jena, Louisiana, on Friday denied Khalil’s motion for a waiver preventing his removal from the U.S., due to alleged misrepresentations made in an application for an adjustment of status.

Khalil’s attorneys said they have 30 days from the Friday order to appeal the decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

In that order, Comee cited that on June 20, the court issued a written decision denying Khalil’s application for asylum, and ordered he be removed to Algeria and Syria.

She doubled down on that prior ruling, saying the court found Kahlil’s “lack of candor on his I-485 form was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.” The form is an application to register permanent residence or adjust status.

“Rather, this Court finds that Respondent willfully misrepresented material fact(s) for the sole purpose of circumventing the immigration process and reducing the likelihood his applications could be denied. This Court cannot and will not condone such an action by granting a discretionary waiver,” Comee said.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, the Biden-appointed judge presiding over Khalil’s habeas petition case in New Jersey federal court, Khalil’s attorneys said Wednesday: “The only meaningful impediment to Petitioner’s physical removal from the United States would be this Court’s important order prohibiting removal during the pendency of his federal habeas case.”

Farbiarz previously blocked the Trump administration from deporting Khalil on the allegation that he poses a national security risk; however, the government continued to pursue his removal based on the allegations related to his green card.

In a statement Khalil said, “It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech. Their latest attempt, through a kangaroo immigration court, exposes their true colors once again.”

“When their first effort to deport me was set to fail, they resorted to fabricating baseless and ridiculous allegations in a bid to silence me for speaking out and standing firmly with Palestine, demanding an end to the ongoing genocide,” he continued. “Such fascist tactics will never deter me from continuing to advocate for my people’s liberation.”

Khalil, a native of Syria and citizen of Algeria, entered the U.S. on a student visa in December 2022 and his status was adjusted to lawful permanent resident in November 2024.

The Trump administration has accused Khalil, a green card holder, of withholding information about his membership in certain organizations. Those groups included that he was a member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency of Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as a political officer and that he was part of Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Further, the Trump administration said he failed to disclose his previous employment at the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in his permanent residency application in 2024.

The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NBC News reviewed more than 100 pages of documents submitted by the federal government in its effort to deport Khalil, along with evidence filed by Khalil’s legal team — including his permanent residency application, articles about his activism, and contracts and letters outlining internship and work experience.

In some cases, the government appeared to rely on unverified tabloid reports about Khalil. In others, its claims were factually incorrect due to inconsistent timelines and mischaracterizations of his work history.