Mahmoud Khalil, the most prominent of the pro-Palestinian students the Trump administration targeted for deportation last year, has lost his deportation case after the Board of Immigration Appeals rejected his request for leniency Thursday.
The ruling does not mean he will be immediately deported. He already has another case pending in a regular circuit court of appeals and vowed to appeal this latest decision, too. While those cases are pending, he is likely to be able to stave off deportation.
Mr. Khalil called the court “biased and politically motivated.” The administration declared him an obstruction to U.S. foreign policy last year, and began deportation proceedings against him. He challenged that move, and the administration then added another grounds of deportation, saying he had misled officials in his immigration documents by not reporting a past association with a U.N. agency that worked in Gaza.
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And an immigration judge — who is part of the Justice Department — ruled that there were grounds to deport him. It is that ruling that the BIA, also a part of DOJ, upheld Thursday.
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