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Student faces deportation over Donald Trump threat

This undated photo provided by Ohoud Ali Mohamed Nasr El Sayed shows her brother, Emadeldin, an Egyptian aviation student in the Los Angeles area. Prosecutors are trying to get him deported over Facebook comments threatening Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and his lawyers are fighting it. He faces a deportation hearing Friday, March 4, 2016. [PHOTO/AP]

An Egyptian flight student is expected to appear in immigration court to determine whether he should be deported after being investigated by federal agents for posting threatening comments on his Facebook page about Donald Trump.

Emadeldin Elsayed, 23, (pictured), an aspiring pilot from Cairo, has a hearing scheduled before Immigration Judge Kevin Riley in Los Angeles

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