The US judiciary has given the Trump administration one day to present its justification for deporting student Mahmoud Khalil.

"If his removal was unjustified, I will close this case on Friday," Commans said during a hearing at LaSalle Immigration Court in Jena, Louisiana.

Homeland Security lawyers told Comans they will present evidence before the judge's 5 p.m. Wednesday deadline.

This comes a month after US authorities arrested Palestinian student Khalil, who led solidarity protests at Columbia University last year to denounce Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The US government's allegations, presented by Komans at the hearing, stated that Khalil "was forced to leave the country because he concealed in his visa application that he worked for a UN Palestinian relief agency, nor did he state in the application that he worked for the Syria office of the British Embassy in Beirut and was a member of the Apartheid Defeat group at Columbia University," claims his lawyer, Mark van der Hout, denied.

The deportation case is separate from the March challenge to Khalil's detention, known as a habeas corpus petition. Another judge hearing Khalil's habeas corpus petition has ruled that he must remain in the United States for the time being.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously said in a post on the X platform, accompanied by a photo of Khalil following his arrest: "We will revoke the visas or green cards of Hamas supporters in the US so they can be deported."

Last January, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on "combating anti-Semitism," allowing the deportation of students who participate in demonstrations in support of Palestine.

With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 165,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.