Student Can Be Deported Despite Warrantless Arrest: Judge
A protester holds a photo of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil during a demonstration in New York City on April 24.
Photographer: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil failed to convince an immigration judge that he shouldn’t be deported for his anti-Israel activism because he was arrested without a warrant.
Khalil’s attorneys had urged the judge in Louisiana to release him after federal prosecutors acknowledged last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents lacked a warrant when they took him into custody on March 8 outside his student-housing apartment building in Manhattan.