The sooner they deport this terrorist supporter, the better. Mahmoud Khalil isn’t a citizen. His deportation wouldn’t be unlawful https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-13/josh-hammer-khalil-headline-tk The stock market of late has been on a veritable roller coaster, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency continues to ruffle feathers, Iran marches ever closer to a nuclear weapon and Russia and Ukraine are getting tantalizingly close to a cease-fire. But the national political conversation this week has curiously tended to focus not on any of that, but instead on protests over the uncertain fate of a lone noncitizen and former Columbia University graduate student, Mahmoud Khalil. Talk about a misplacement of priorities. Most American media consumers care a great deal about their pocketbooks and retirement accounts. They probably also care about stability on the world stage — a subdued China, a relatively calm Middle East and a long-overdue peace deal to end the bloodshed in Eastern Europe. By contrast, here is one thing media consumers probably don’t care a lot about: Whether a Syrian national and Algerian citizen who was the face of last year’s pro-Hamas Columbia University campus riots gets deported. Is it any wonder that only 31% of Americans told Gallup in the fall that they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media? By any metric, Khalil is a wildly unsympathetic figure. The New York Times described him as the “public face of protest against Israel” at Columbia. He acted as the lead negotiator for a pro-Hamas student group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which has referred to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter of Israelis as a “moral, military, and political victory” and asserted that it is fighting for nothing less than “the total eradication of Western civilization.” Even more relevant, Khalil is not a U.S. citizen. He is a green card holder, a “legal alien.” And he can remain on our soil only when the sovereign — in the U.S., that’s “We the People” — consents to it. When we remove our consent, that person can be deported. The power to exclude is a defining feature of what it means to be a sovereign. Emer de Vattel’s highly influential 1758 treatise, “The Law of Nations,” described this power as plenary: “The sovereign may forbid the entrance of his territory either to foreigners in general, or in particular cases, or to certain persons, or for certain particular purposes, according as he may think it advantageous to the state.” And as the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia noted in a citation in a 2001 dissent, “Due process does not invest any alien with a right to enter the United States, nor confer on those admitted the right to remain against the national will.” It’s quite simple, really: If someone in the U.S. on a tourist visa or in possession of a green card violates the terms of his admission, he can be removed. That brings us back to Khalil — a foreign national who allegedly violated the terms of his sojourn by supporting at least one U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization, and by making common cause with an organization clamoring more generally for the end of Western civilization. The day the United States loses the ability to deport noncitizens who espouse such toxic beliefs is the day the United States ceases to be a sovereign nation-state. The Khalil saga is where we see the intersection of the three toxic anti-Western ideologies. First, there is the “woke” angle: Khalil represented CUAD, which espouses a neo-Marxist oppressor/oppressed dichotomy, and its view of Israel as an “oppressor” underlies Khalil’s repugnant activism. Second, there is the Islamist angle: CUAD supports Sunni Islamist outfits such as Hamas. Third, there is the global neoliberal angle: Those protesting Khalil’s detention see little distinction between citizen and noncitizen — as in John Lennon’s dystopian song “Imagine,” they envision a borderless world. Khalil’s arrest and detention are thus only in part about Khalil. On Monday, the official X account for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats posted, alongside a corresponding photo, “Free Mahmoud Khalil.” But if those Senate Democrats and Khalil’s myriad other apologists are being honest, they seek not merely to “free” Khalil from President Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Rather, they seek to free him — and all of us — from the shackles of Western civilization itself.
Good! Deport her soon as possible. It's long overdue to rapidly round up the rest of these terrorism supporters and send them packing. DHS arrests another student involved in Columbia university protests https://abcnews.go.com/US/dhs-agents-search-2-student-rooms-columbia-university/story?id=119779866 The Department of Homeland Security has arrested a second student who was involved with Columbia University protests, the agency announced. Leqaa Korda was arrested by agents from Homeland Security Investigations for allegedly overstaying her expired visa -- which terminated on Jan. 26, 2022. She was also allegedly arrested in 2024 for her involvement in the protests, according to DHS. Korda is a Palestinian from the West Bank, according to DHS. The arrest comes nearly a week after plain-clothed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was also involved in the protests at Columbia University. The agency said another student involved in the protests -- Ranjani Srinivasan, an urban planning student at Columbia and Indian citizen -- used the CBP Home app to self-deport. “It is a privilege to be granted a visa to live and study in the United States of America," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said. "When you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country. I am glad to see one of the Columbia University terrorist sympathizers use the CBP Home app to self-deport." Federal agents with DHS also searched two Columbia University student residences Thursday night but did not arrest or detain anyone. In a statement, Columbia President Katrina Armstrong said the DHS agents had two search warrants signed by a federal magistrate judge authorizing them to enter non-public areas of the university and conduct searches of two student rooms. "I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight," Armstrong said in the statement. "No one was arrested or detained. No items were removed, and no further action was taken." The searches were part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on individuals it has described as espousing the views of Hamas and threatening the safety of Jewish students, according to sources. Khalil was one of the leaders of the university encampment protests last spring, and is being held in Louisiana. Khalil, a green card holder who has not been charged with a crime, is set to appear before an immigration judge on March 27. Trump administration officials have said Khalil was detained for his purported support of Hamas. Baher Azmy, one of Khalil's lawyers, called his client's alleged alignment with Hamas "false and preposterous." Earlier Thursday, at least 98 people were arrested at a protest in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City calling for Khalil's release. Separately, Columbia University announced Thursday that students who occupied the campus' Hamilton Hall during pro-Palestinian protests last spring have been expelled, suspended for several years or had their degrees temporarily revoked.
I've been paying a bit more attention to this matter and, as far as I can tell, no actual charges have yet been leveled against Khalil in connection with the accusations made. I am not aware of any evidence that he actually supported or endorsed Hamas. Rather, he supported the Palestinian people. There is a difference. If he did openly and actively support Hamas, then I would look upon him differently. Quite apart from his sentiments and our interpretation of them, what has happened to Trump's recent decision to unfetter free speech, which he claimed was hobbled by the Democrats? And if we are to distinguish free speech from hate speech, then what are we to make of the open Nazi sympathizers and their beloved swastikas (most of whom support Trump)? How is it that they can go about their hate business untouched? I think there is a troubling development going on here, which, if left unchecked, will hamper genuine free speech in favor of government-approved speech. Oh, and by the way, "Sieg Heil," Herr Musk.
Being a leader of an organization -- which has been proven to take in Hamas money --- and marches around campus shouting "Kill the Jews" while occupying buildings -- certainly needs to be deported. The only question is why it hasn't been done earlier -- like when Biden was in office. It is good to see you paying for reverence to Herr Musk. How is your Tesla purchase going?
Viewers will note, yet again, how the lefty mind works. Their lefty hamas loving buddies are going door to door threatening jews within an inch of their lives and trying to drive them from public places and their homes as well. Yet Elon Musk is the Nazi in this scenario?
Make no mistake, if it is hate speech, then I am personally against it. But what is Trump and his cabinet doing about the Nazi-spewing unwashed? The field should be leveled. Oh, and come on, gwb, I totally dislike Musk and everything he stands for. Did you miss my point?
I did not miss your point. But in this particular case -- this particular individual and others at Columbia need to be deported. I covered their activities in detail including video of their chants on campus with the intent of intimidating and terrifying Jewish students on the other thread. The civil lawsuit filed against them made it quite clear their funding included money funneled from Hamas -- something that even the Biden administration Justice Department concurred with.