Immigration judge rules student activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from US

Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, an immigration judge has ruled (Ted Shaffrey/AP/File)

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled on Friday during a hearing over the legality of removing the activist who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations from the US.

Immigration Judge Jamee E Comans said, at the conclusion of a hearing in Jena, that the government’s contention that Mr Khalil’s presence in the United States posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences” was enough to satisfy requirements for his deportation.