Detained Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil will stay locked up in a Louisiana ICE facility for now — as a New Jersey judge refused to consider freeing him on bail during a hearing Friday.

Newark federal court Judge Michael Farbiarz declined to hear arguments on whether to free the 30-year-old green card holder — who has become the face of President Trump’s crackdown on students protesting the Israel-Hamas war — during the 90 minute hearing.

Khalil’s wife Noor Abdallah, an American citizen who is due to give birth next month, looked on in the courtroom’s front row as the judge said he’d rule first on the feds’ bid to move Khalil’s legal case challenging his deportation to Jena, La., where he is currently being held.

Khalil, who did not appear at the hearing, has been detained for more than two weeks since he was nabbed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the lobby of his university-owned Manhattan apartment building. 

He was then transferred briefly to a New Jersey ICE detention center, before being flown to the Louisiana facility.

One of his lawyers, Ramzi Kassem, told reporters after Friday’s hearing that Khalil’s wife has been “going through an extremely difficult period of time” in his absence.

“She has said publicly that Mr. Khalil was her main support during her pregnancy. He prepared all her meals. He made sure she took her medication,” Kassem said.

Khalil, a legal US resident born in Syria, emerged last April as one the public faces of the student-led protests at the Ivy League university criticizing Israel and expressing support for Palestinians’ territorial claims. 

He was not one of several protesters arrested by the NYPD at the time, and has not been accused of breaking any laws.

The White House has ordered Khalil’s deportation by citing an obscure law that lets the Secretary of State remove noncitizens who would allegedly cause “serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the US if they are allowed to stay.

Khalil was one of the leaders of a group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which accuses Israel of “actively committing genocide and ethnic cleansing,” according to an op-ed published in Columbia’s student newspaper.

The Trump administration claimed he attended protests where posters were handed out that “glorified” Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and accused him of being a “supporter” of the terror group and of fueling antisemitism.

But the federal government has not accused Khalil of making any specific contact with the terror group that currently controls Gaza.

The feds claimed Khalil hid his six-month stint working at the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on his visa application, and argued that should be grounds for deportation.

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA, was infamously stripped of tens of millions of dollars in federal funding after an explosive report that some of its members took part in Hamas’ 2023 attack.

Khalil’s lawyers said he was illegally targeted for deportation over his activism — which they argue were actions protected by the First Amendment right to free speech.

Scores of demonstrators gathered outside the courthouse on Friday morning, chanting, “Free Mahmoud,” and hoisting signs featuring his face.

“No matter what happens in court, what’s most important is for all of us to keep up the pressure,” said his lawyer Kassem after the hearing. “To let this government know that it cannot suppress speech.”

The Trump Administration has targeted a slew of other student activists in recent weeks, including Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student who plain-clothed ICE agents snatched off the street near the school’s campus in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Ozturk, who is from Turkey, co-wrote an op-ed in Tufts’ student newspaper calling for the university to divest from the Jewish state — a common demand made by demonstrators.

DHS Spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin claimed in a statement that Ozturk had been detained for “activities in support of Hamas.” ICE agents sent her immediately to Louisiana, before her attorneys could secure a judge’s order blocking the transfer.

Green cards are rarely revoked in cases where someone is not accused of a crime.

— With Post wires