Government Given One Day to Produce Evidence for Deporting Columbia University Protester Khalil
Source: US News and World Report/Reuters
April 8, 2025, at 4:17 p.m.
JENA, Louisiana (Reuters) - A month after Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was picked up by immigration agents in New York and transferred 1,200 miles to a detention center in rural Louisiana, an immigration judge on Tuesday gave the government a day to provide evidence he should be deported and said she would rule on that question on Friday.
"If he's not removable I'm going to be terminating this case on Friday," Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Comans said during a hearing at the LaSalle Immigration Court in Jena, Louisiana. Khalil was in the courtroom at a table where he could see his attorney Marc Van Der Hout, appearing remotely from California, on a nearby screen.
Department of Homeland Security lawyers told Comans they would provide the evidence by her 5 p.m. Wednesday deadline.
President Donald Trump's administration says it has revoked Khalil's status as a lawful permanent resident under a 1952 law allowing the deportation of any immigrant whose presence in the country the secretary of state deems harmful to U.S. foreign policy.
Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-08/government-given-one-day-to-produce-evidence-for-deporting-columbia-university-protester-khalil
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