Mahmoud Khalil calls for deportation to be halted in light of new evidence

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student, have called on an immigration appeals court to reopen and terminate his deportation case. They cite new evidence suggesting that the Trump Administration secretly engineered the outcome of his case to make an example of him. Khalil, a US permanent resident, was detained in March 2025 for his pro-Palestine activism and has long maintained that he is being targeted for his political views.