{"id":109772,"date":"2026-01-23T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109772\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:05:19","slug":"pro-palestinian-activist-columbia-graduate-student-mahmoud-khalil-set-to-be-deported-to-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109772\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian activist, Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil set to be deported to Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, January 22, 2026 12:11PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Mahmoud Khalil set to be deported to Algeria\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK (WABC) &#8212; A former Columbia University graduate student arrested by ICE agents after taking part in pro-Palestinian protests is set to be deported to Algeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">DHS official Tricia McLaughlin said in an interview last night that, &#8220;It  looks like he&#8217;ll go to Algeria. That&#8217;s what the thought is right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">DHS will need to detain Khalil again first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The move comes after a federal appeals court reversed a lower court&#8217;s decision that freed Syrian-born activist Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Trump administration maintains Khalil lied on documents as he applied for permanent U.S. residency and has argued he supports Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Khalil denies he supports violence.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, January 22, 2026 12:11PM NEW YORK (WABC) &#8212; A former Columbia University graduate student arrested by ICE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[49274,128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-109772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-49274","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-the-bronx","14":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","15":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109772","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=109772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}