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Activist Mahmoud Khalil has asked a U.S. immigration judge for asylum.
The Trump administration is trying to deport Khaled over his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University.
NPR's Adrian Florido reports Khaled says he fears the state of Israel could kill him
if he is deported.
Khaled testified in a courtroom at the Louisiana detention center where he's been locked up
since ICE agents arrested him in early March.
He said that since President Trump accused him, falsely he says,
of supporting Hamas terrorism, he's had a target on his back.
He told the judge that if he's deported to the Middle East,
he fears Israeli agents could assassinate,
kidnap, or torture him because he's become a high-profile Palestinian critic of Israel.
His wife brought their one-month-old son from New York so Khalil could meet him.
Each time the baby cooed inside the courtroom, Khalil looked over and smiled.
The immigration judge will rule on asylum next month.