Pro-Palestinian activist and former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil — who the Trump administration has accused of being pro-Hamas — is going to have to make the North African country of Algeria his new home, the Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday.
The move comes after an appellate court decision cleared the way for the Syrian-born activists’ removal.
🚨 BREAKING: Pro-Palestine radical foreigner Mahmoud Khalil to be DEPORTED TO ALGERIA
President Trump’s DHS has WON in court, the activist judge was overturned, and Khalil will be sent OUT
GOOD RIDDANCE! 👋🏻👋🏻pic.twitter.com/bYJeZFf922
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 22, 2026
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Mahmoud was a key Columbia University activist and “student negotiator” in the violent protests that took over Columbia and swept over many of our nation’s institutions of higher education following the savage Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel.
Instead of calling out the barbaric assault which led to thousands dead, hundreds of hostages detained and tortured, and a brutal war with Israel, a disturbing number of America’s young people took the side of Hamas, citing “the plight of the Palestinian people.”
Remember, the Palestinian electorate voted to put Hamas in power in 2006.
But Mahmoud will not be enjoying the freedoms of the United States any longer, the DHS said:
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil is set to FINALLY be deported, and he’s going to REGRET ever putting up a fight.
His new home is settled in the LOVING COUNTRY of Algeria, and DHS is going to QUICKLY apprehend and DEPORT now that the judicial filibuster is DONE.
I hope he enjoys EVERY… pic.twitter.com/yeFyd3vkZj
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 22, 2026
I hope he enjoys EVERY LAST MOMENT of his BRAND NEW LIFE!
At a rally in June, Khalil denied that he supported the terrorists. A good rule of thumb: Never, ever, trust a person who constantly refers to himself in the third person:
“Who is Mahmoud Khalil? … Mahmoud Khalil is a human rights defender. Mahmoud Khalil is a freedom fighter. Mahmoud Khalil is a refugee. Mahmoud Khalil is a father and husband, and above all, Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian,” he said.
He’ll have to make a new place to call home, according to the department:
“It looks like he’ll go to Algeria. That’s what the thought is right now,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, told “Katie Pavlich Tonight” when asked about Khalil.
“It’s a reminder for those who are in this country on a visa or on a green card. You are a guest in this country — act like it,” she added. “It is a privilege, not a right, to be in this country to live or to study.”
The protests at UCLA, Columbia, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and so many others following the despicable Hamas attack remain a stain on our country — and unfortunately, on many of our brainwashed young people. Innocent Israelis were raped, burned alive, and summarily executed, and yet the response from all too many was, “Oh, but they might have deserved it.”
Nobody deserves what happened to them at the hands of those savage terrorists.
Mahmoud Khalil proved over and over again that he is not a net plus to our country, and his presence won’t be missed. Perhaps he’ll find a nice life in the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Editor’s Note: The nation’s elite academic institutions have lost the plot and become full-on indoctrination centers.
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