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A Louisiana immigration judge, as Will Mahmoud Khalil, a student activist at Columbia, can be deported.

Khalil led pro-Palestinian protests there last year and was detained last month after

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he determined that Khalil's activism was any Semitic and that

allowing him to remain in the country would undermine U.S. foreign policy. In a hearing at the

remote Louisiana detention center where Kalil is being held. Judge Jamie Coleman said she had no authority to

question Rubio's determination. She gave Kalil's lawyers till April 23rd to request a stay of his deportation.

The Chinese government is again retaliating against the Trump administration's latest set of tariffs.

But as NPR's John Ruich explains explains Beijing says it has no plans to go

further. China announced that it's increasing tariffs on U.S. imports to 125% from 84%. The finance ministry

says it'll take effect on Saturday. This step matches Trump's latest escalation as the trade war

between the world's top two economies worsens.

But the finance ministry signaled that Beijing was done with matching tariffs.

In a statement on its website, it said U.S. goods exported to China are no longer market viable and said if the U.S. continues to increase tariffs on Chinese imports, China will not respond.

The Commerce Ministry issued a statement at the same time with the same message about further

tariffs, but it warned that if the U.S. persists in taking substantive actions that infringe

upon China's interests, China will, quote, respond resolutely and stand firm to the end.

John Rewich, NPR News, Beijing.

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