{"id":109339,"date":"2026-01-23T02:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:31:14","slug":"columbia-campus-protest-leader-khalil-now-faces-deportation-to-algeria-trump-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109339\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia campus protest leader Khalil now faces deportation to Algeria, Trump official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"yvy5k\">Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian protest organizer whose immigration arrest last year made national headlines, will be re-arrested and deported to Algeria, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/immigration\/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-rearrest-dhs\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Newsnation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d30l5\">Khalil, a Syrian-born Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent, was arrested by federal immigration officers last March after Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed his presence would have &#8220;serious adverse foreign policy consequences&#8221; for the United States.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"440p4\">In a statement, Khalil\u2019s legal team disputed whether he could be legally detained or deported while the appeals process has not concluded. In the statement, they said the government&#8217;s actions &#8220;reinforce its disdain for the First Amendment rights of people engaged in peaceful protest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"crpbe\">The 30-year-old former student, who is a lawful permanent U.S. resident, was the first of several immigrant university students at Columbia and across the country to be targeted for deportation over their pro-Palestinian activism.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9saak\">Khalil was detained for several months before a federal judge ordered his <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/judge-orders-columbia-protester-mahmoud-khalil-released-from-immigration-detention\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a> in June. But in a recent setback for Khalil, a federal appeals court ruled 2-1 to <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/federal-appeals-court-rules-against-mahmoud-khalil-opening-the-door-to-his-deportation\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reverse<\/a> the lower court\u2019s decision on jurisdictional grounds, opening the door for him to be detained again.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"famqh\">&#8220;It\u2019s a reminder for those who are in this country on a visa or on a green card,&#8221; McLaughlin said in the Newsnation interview. &#8220;You are a guest in this country \u2014 act like it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian protest organizer whose immigration arrest last year made national headlines,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-109339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}