Marco Rubio said in a memo Khalil's campus activities were "otherwise lawful" but he should be deported due to potential "adverse foreign policy consequences."

A Louisiana immigration judge ruled that the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia grad student detained last month for his role in campus protests against the war in Gaza. Khalil has not been charged with a crime and the administration is trying to remove him through a Cold War immigration law.