Anti-Israel Columbia Protester Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Judge Rules, But It Won't Happen Immediately

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : An immigration judge ruled on Friday that Mahmoud Khalil could be expelled from the United States because of his participation in anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University.
50% : " The memo further cited legal authority granted to the Trump administration to expel foreign nationals whose presence is deemed detrimental to U.S. diplomatic priorities.
49% : His legal team still has the opportunity to appeal and continue contesting the removal order before it is finalized. Khalil, 30, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on March 8 at his subsidized campus apartment in Manhattan, where he was living with his pregnant American wife.
41% : His detention followed a Trump administration directive targeting anti-Israel demonstrators on college campuses.
36% : The Department of Homeland Security and ICE justified the arrest using a little-known statute that empowers the Secretary of State to deport a noncitizen deemed a risk to U.S. foreign relations.

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