"This vindicates what Mahmoud has maintained since day one — that the government cannot detain or deport him based on Rubio’s say-so," Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for Khalil and a law professor at the City University of New York, said in a statement.

Anti-Israel ringleader Mahmoud Khalil posted a $1 bond on Thursday following a federal judge siding with his effort to resist deportation.

A judge said the Trump administration cannot detain or deport Mahmoud Khalil for the foreign policy reasons cited by the Trump administration.