Mahmoud Khalil's Deportation Battle Intensifies

0:00It's April 10th. Welcome to Canada News today, powered by AI, I'm Cory with the story. An immigration appeals board just denying Mahmoud Khalil's latest push to drop his deportation case, putting this former Columbia University grad. Student and Palestinian activists, one step closer to possible removal from the U.S. Khalil, a 31-year-old legal permanent resident born in Syria to a Palestinian family, got hit with a final removal order on Thursday. He's got Algerian citizenship through a relative, but his lawyers say he can't be detained or deported yet while he fights a separate federal court. Battle. He wasn't shocked by the decision, calling it biased and politically driven, and insists his only crime is speaking out against what's happening in. Gaza The government accused him of aligning with Hamas during pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia, but they show no proof, and he denies any, anti-Semitism charges. Back in March, he was the first publicly known arrest in a federal crackdown on non-citizens

1:00criticizing Israel. He spent 104 days in immigration jail, missing his first child's birth, before a new Jersey judge set him free, until an appeals panel. Ruled that judge, went too far, and sent it back to immigration courts. Now his team is pushing for the full panel to rethink that call, and for one judge to recuse himself over past justice department ties. With deportation looming, Khalil fears he could face serious danger, or worse, if sent back.