Ex-Columbia Student to Ask Supreme Court to Stop Deportation (1)

A Columbia University graduate student detained by US authorities over his role in pro-Palestinian protests will ask the US Supreme Court to halt his deportation after a federal appeals court rejected his request for a re-hearing.

The 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia on Friday declined to review the case of Mahmoud Khalil, 31, who was arrested by immigration officials last year and quickly became a symbol of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on campus protests over Israel’s two-year war in Gaza.

A three-judge panel of the appeals court sided with the government in January finding Khalil must ...