Student Can Be Deported Despite Warrantless Arrest: Judge (1)

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil failed to convince an immigration judge that he shouldn’t be deported for his anti-Israel activism because he was arrested without a warrant.

Khalil’s attorneys had urged the judge in Louisiana to release him after federal prosecutors acknowledged last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents lacked a warrant when they took him into custody on March 8 outside his student-housing apartment building in Manhattan.

But the judge, who isn’t identified in a court filing, ruled Friday that the “termination of removal proceedings is not an appropriate remedy for the harm” that Khalil alleged, according ...