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The student wrote that he would not mind life in prison if he could kill Donald Trump. | AP Photo Egyptian student who threatened Trump agrees to leave U.S.

A flight student from Egypt who was arrested and faced deportation after posting a threatening comment to Donald Trump on Facebook last month will be allowed to voluntarily leave the United States, according to reports.

Emad Elsayed, 23, appeared Friday before U.S. Immigration Court in Los Angeles, where Judge Kevin Riley granted him voluntary departure, to be accompanied home to Cairo by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

"He made a mistake he regrets," Elsayed's attorney, Hani Bushra, told the Los Angeles Times. "He will regret it for a long, long time."

ICE authorities arrested Elsayed on Feb. 12 for allegedly violating the terms of his admission to the U.S., nine days after he posted an article with a comment to Facebook pertaining to Trump's call to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the United States. Bushra told the Times that Secret Service agents turned up at the flight academy where Elsayed was studying after the owner reported the post, in which Elsayed wrote that he would not mind life in prison if he could kill the Republican presidential candidate.

According to NBC's Los Angeles affiliate, Elsayed must leave the U.S. by July 5 under the terms of his voluntary departure.

With the exit of Ben Carson, Trump is the only Republican candidate to have Secret Service protection.