A judge’s ruling that President Donald Trump’s administration can proceed with its deportation case against Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil comes as no surprise, as the “facts surrounding it are absolutely unassailable,” former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova told Newsmax to Sunday.

“The secretary of state made a finding that his presence in the country was inimical to United States foreign policy,” diGenova, appearing on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend” with his wife, former chief counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee Victoria Toensing, commented.

Khalil led protests at Columbia, which is not illegal, said diGenova, but in this case, he was in the United States on a student visa and did not disclose that he had worked with the United Nations relief agency, UNRWA, and did not reveal that he was a supporter of Hamas.

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