Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University pro-Palestine protester arrested last weekend and being held in custody, is the “wrong person” to use a “test case” for removing criminal immigrants from the United States, retired Judge Andrew Napolitano told Newsmax on Thursday.

“If President [Donald] Trump wants to make an example out of him as the first case, the test case to remove aliens who he believes are committing crime, I don’t think they picked the right person,” Napolitano told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”

Khalil, who was apprehended last Saturday at his residence in New York and transported to an ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana, is accused of participating in the anti-Israel protests at Columbia last spring and distributing terrorist propaganda.

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