Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student and activist who has been fighting his deportation, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow him to continue to contest his immediate detention and possible removal from the United States while his separate immigration proceedings continue to play out.

It is unclear whether the high court will choose to hear the case and when it might decide that. Khalil’s request comes during a court term already packed with high-profile cases involving President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, such as whether the administration can send migrants to countries that are not their own.

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