A US District Court judge in New York has ordered that Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil not be deported for now, “unless and until the court orders otherwise”, according to Al Jazeera.

Judge Jesse Furman also set a court hearing in Khalil’s case for tomorrow.

Khalil’s lawyers urged the judge to order their client’s return to New York after he was moved to a federal jail for migrants in Louisiana to await deportation proceedings, accusing the government of seeking to deprive Khalil of access to legal counsel by sending him far from New York.

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