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An immigration judge ruled Friday that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported on grounds that he threatens foreign policy, as alleged by the Trump administration.

 

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While a student at Columbia University, Khalil was part of a leadership group protesting the war in Gaza. Khalil took part in negotiations with school administrators demanding the institution cut ties with Israel and divest from Israeli companies. Khalil finished his graduate studies at Columbia in December and is set to graduate in the spring.

 

Khalil — whose wife is about to give birth to their first child — was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his Columbia housing in March.

 

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The government has argued, under an obscure 1952 federal law called the Immigration and Nationality Act, that it believes migrants are deportable “if the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe that the alien’s presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”

I love how any law with which the reporter disagrees is deemed “obscure.” Most of our laws were written a while ago and there are so dang many of them that most of them could be deemed “obscure.” But it’s still the law and it is very clear that the Secretary of State has this arbitrary authority.