Anti-Israeli activist Mahmoud Khalil trashed the Trump administration's case against him in a Washington Post column this week. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)
Khalil is accused of being a ringleader for anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attorneys have argued that Khalil's free speech claims were a "red herring," saying that the 30-year-old green card holder lied on his visa applications.
Khalil, they said, willfully failed to disclose his employment with the Syrian office in the British Embassy in Beirut when he applied for permanent U.S. residency.
COLUMBIA ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTER MAHMOUD KHALIL CAN BE DEPORTED, JUDGE RULES
Mahmoud Khalil's wife Noor Abdalla leaves after a hearing in court in Newark, New Jersey on March 28, 2025. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)
Khalil has Algerian citizenship through his mother, but was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.
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Khalil is married to Noor Abdalla, a U.S. citizen. They met in 2016 while volunteering in Lebanon. They married in 2023, and she was eight months pregnant at the time of his arrest.
Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
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