{"id":6108,"date":"2026-04-11T07:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/trump-admin-inches-closer-to-deporting-mahmoud-khalil\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:26:37","slug":"trump-admin-inches-closer-to-deporting-mahmoud-khalil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/trump-admin-inches-closer-to-deporting-mahmoud-khalil\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin Inches Closer To Deporting Mahmoud Khalil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil has lost a bid to have his deportation case thrown out.<\/p>\n

An immigration appeals board issued a final order of removal Thursday, according to the Associated Press, citing Khalil\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n

Khalil called the ruling \u201cbiased and politically motivated,\u201d adding that he wasn\u2019t surprised by the decision, the outlet reported. His attorneys said he is still pursuing a separate case in federal court and cannot yet be detained or deported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have committed no crime. I have broken no law,\u201d Khalil said in a statement. \u201cThe only thing I am guilty of is speaking out against the genocide in Palestine \u2014 and this administration has weaponized the immigration system to punish me for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khalil, a green card holder from Syria who is of Palestinian descent, was nabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/a> in March 2025 after helping lead anti-Israel protests at Columbia University. The Department of Homeland Security said<\/a> at the time that his activities were \u201caligned to Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Photo by Adam Gray\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Khalil\u2019s \u201cpresence or activities would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest\u201d and pledged\u00a0to strip the immigration status of foreigners deemed to be \u201cHamas supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be revoking the visas and\/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,\u201d Rubio said on X.<\/p>\n

A federal judge in New Jersey ordered Khalil\u2019s release from ICE detention in June.<\/p>\n

Following Thursday\u2019s ruling, Khalil\u2019s lead attorney, Marc Van Der Hout, slammed the Trump administration, accusing it of exerting undue influence over immigration courts, which he argued have sided less with noncitizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn all my decades as an immigration lawyer, I have never seen such a baseless and politically motivated decision,\u201d Van Der Hout said. \u201cThe BIA\u2019s decision has absolutely no support in the record, violates a federal court order, and we\u2019ll be fighting it until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFederal courts have already agreed that Mahmoud was targeted for his speech, and there is likely much more evidence of the government\u2019s unlawful retaliation that has yet to come to light. This is a clear continuation of the administration\u2019s retaliation against Mahmoud for exercising his First Amendment rights,\u201d Khalil\u2019s lawyer added.<\/p>\n

Former ICE Deputy Field Office Director Scott Mechkowski also weighed in, writing<\/a> on X that Khalil\u2019s case \u201cis an example of how the Immigration System is \u2018Broken\u2019!,\u201d adding \u201cThis guy should have been removed years ago, but attorneys just keep trying to game the system. Time to deport him already!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil has lost a bid to have his deportation case thrown out. An immigration appeals board issued a final order of removal Thursday, according to the Associated Press, citing Khalil\u2019s legal team. Khalil called the ruling \u201cbiased and politically motivated,\u201d adding that he wasn\u2019t surprised by the decision, the outlet reported. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conservative-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}