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An immigration judge in Louisiana has ruled that a student at Columbia University can be deported.
Mahmood Khalil was detained last month for taking part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus.
NPR's Adrian Floreto reports Khalil's attorneys say they plan to challenge the decision.
Judge Jamie Coman said she had no authority to question Secretary of State Marco Rubio's decision to revoke Khalil's green card and order him deported.
Government lawyers presented a two-page memo from Rubio saying Khalil had engaged in anti-Semitic protests that undermined the government's goal to fight anti-Semitism around the world.
Judge Coman said Rubio's memo was all the government needed to justify deporting Khalil under a rarely used federal statute.
Khalil's lawyers have called the accusations of anti-Semitism absurd.
They called the hearing a kangaroo court and said they will appeal the ruling.
Khalil will remain detained for now as his legal battle plays out in immigration court and in federal court.
Adrian Floreto and PR News Gina Louisiana.
The Iranian foreign minister has arrived in Oman for the beginning of indirect talks with the United States.
NPR's Hadeel Alshalchi reports the two sides are expected to discuss Iran's advancing nuclear program.
Iran's foreign minister Abbas Arajchi is in the Omani capital, Muscat,
as part of a delegation expected to meet with President Trump's mid-east envoy, Steve Witkoff.
Arajchi said on X that the talks are, quote, as much an opportunity as they are a test.
He said that, quote, the ball is in America's court.
Trump had originally said that the two sides would have direct talks with each other,
but Iranian officials said they would in fact be indirect and mediated by officials in Oman.
Trump said he wants a diplomatic solution with Iran,