The Trump administration remains committed to deporting Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and leading figure in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.

Khalil was the first of several students from Middle Eastern countries apprehended by authorities in the first months of the second Trump administration.

Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has said the Trump administration failed to suppress pro-Palestinian voices, following his release from more than three months in immigration detention. "My existence is a message" to the Trump administration,