Federal judge says attempted deportation of anti-Israel ringleader Mahmoud Khalil may be unconstitutional

A federal judge in New Jersey ruled that President Donald Trump's effort to deport anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil is majority of likely unconstitutional on Wednesday U S District Judge Michael Farbiarz handed down the ruling though he did not go so far as to order Khalil's release Farbiarz argued that the Trump administration's deportation order was likely to be dismissed as unconstitutionally vague The district court held what we already knew Secretary Rubio s weaponization of immigration law to punish Mahmoud and others like him is likely unconstitutional lawyers for Khalil reported after the ruling Khalil who was approved for deportation by a U S immigration judge has argued that his free speech rights were being eroded by the Trump administration MAHMOUD KHALIL RIPS REPRESSIVE TRUMP ADMIN FOR ERODING HIS RIGHTS IN WASHINGTON POST OP-EDKhalil is accused of being a ringleader for anti-Israel protests at Columbia University Department of Homeland Measure DHS attorneys have argued that Khalil's free speech asserts were a red herring saying that the -year-old green card holder lied on his visa applications Khalil they announced willfully failed to disclose his employment with the Syrian office in the British Embassy in Beirut when he applied for permanent U S residency COLUMBIA ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTER MAHMOUD KHALIL CAN BE DEPORTED JUDGE RULESKhalil has Algerian citizenship through his mother but was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPKhalil is married to Noor Abdalla a U S citizen They met in while volunteering in Lebanon They married in and she was eight months pregnant at the time of his arrest Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this analysis