Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, stating that he “didn’t have a right to be in the United States.” During a stop at Shannon Airport in Ireland en route to the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Canada,

The rarely used law allows Secretary of State Marco Rubio to declare immigrants deportable—but still entitles Khalil to due process.

A federal judge in New York ordered the case of Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil be transferred from New York to New Jersey where his lawyers will continue their legal efforts for his release.

The decision offers a venue compromise in the bellwether case, while Khalil's legal team seeks to release him from detention and block his deportation.

A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to dismiss detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil's challenge to the legality of his arrest by immigration agents over his participation in pro-Palestinian protests but moved the case to New Jersey.