U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman, an Obama appointee, has slammed the brakes on the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student whose green card was revoked following his detention by ICE.
This radical foreign national, labeled by the White House as a “Pro-Hamas Student,” was set to be removed from the United States—until Furman’s activist ruling threw a wrench into the gears of justice.
On Saturday, President Trump’s ICE agents arrested activist Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-born activist who has led anti-Israel protests at Columbia and Barnard College.
“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,” Rubio said on the social platform X.
“On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student,” McLaughlin wrote in a statement to Columbia Spectator.
“Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization… ICE and the Department of State are committed to enforcing President Trump’s executive orders and to protecting U.S. national security,” she added.
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