The two-page memo, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as one of the ring leaders in the anti-Israel protests that occurred over the last year on university campuses such as Columbia in New York.
Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs.
He said that while Khalil's activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”
“Condoning anti-Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective," Rubio wrote in the undated memo.
The submission was filed Wednesday after Judge Jamee Comans ordered the government to produce its evidence against Khalil ahead of a hearing Friday on whether it can continue detaining him during immigration proceedings.
