New in PJ Media:
The Trump administration and all patriotic Americans won a big victory on Friday when a judge ruled that pro-Hamas agitator Mahmoud Khalil, who has become the latest hater of America to become a darling of the left, can lawfully be deported.
It was a classic case of the leftist media giving the public a false impression, and of a judge, along with that same media, once again underestimating the Trump administration. The establishment media has been hysterically insisting for weeks now that Khalil was in danger in being deported solely because he expressed views that Trump and his administration disliked. Leftist propagandists — that is, the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, and the rest — have been claiming that Khalil is the victim of a dictator-in-the-making who wants to destroy the freedom of speech.
And so on Tuesday, Judge Jamee E. Comans, a Louisiana immigration judge, peremptorily gave the federal government exactly 24 hours to provide her with its evidence against Khalil. If she deemed this evidence to be insufficient, she said, “then I am going to terminate the case on Friday.” Marc Van Der Hout, one of Khalil’s large army of attorneys, claimed that “the government has not produced a single shred of evidence to date to support any of its allegations or charges in this case including its outrageous position that Mahmoud’s mere presence and activities in this country have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”
After seeing the evidence that the government provided, however, on Friday Comans did not terminate the case against Khalil. Instead, she ruled that Khalil could indeed be deported. The Associated Press reported that Comans “said at the conclusion of a hearing in Jena that the government’s contention that Khalil’s presence in the United States posed ‘potentially serious foreign policy consequences’ was enough to satisfy requirements for his deportation. Comans said the government had ‘established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable.’”
As you no doubt expect, this isn’t the end of the matter: “Lawyers for Khalil are expected to appeal. And a federal judge in New Jersey has temporarily barred Khalil’s removal from the country.” Nonetheless, the fact that Comans ruled in the administration’s favor is a massive triumph for Trump in his efforts to restore sanity to immigration policy and remove from the country all those who take advantage of America’s hospitality and generosity to work against its interests.
Khalil, according to AP, “isn’t accused of breaking any laws during the protests at Columbia. The government, however, has said that noncitizens who participate in such demonstrations should be expelled from the country for expressing views that the administration considers to be antisemitic and ‘pro-Hamas,’ referring to the Palestinian militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.”
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Brigitte from Germany says
Important petition:
https://www.rebelnews.com/deport_hamas_petition?recruiter_id=6144673
John Pepple says
How do we keep people like that from getting here in the first place?
James Lincoln says
Extreme vetting, John.
Time-consuming and expensive – but it generally works.
Wellington says
Strongly seconded.
OLD GUY says
Closed borders and don’t issue visas to muslims/islamic followers.
somehistory says
The Constitution gives the president the authority over immigration. It should be simple common sense to send this ghoul packing if the president sees it to be a good idea.
The creepy mozlum has finished school. The *reason*….supposedly….for his coming, was to go to school. So he did, and now that’s done. Now, he should go home and use his new knowledge in his home country.
He has the freedom to take his family along. Or, he can leave them. But he has overstayed his ‘privilege’ and welcome to be here and shown by his actions and words that he didn’t appreciate what he had.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Perfectly and succinctly stated.
Everyone should be able to understand this – but they don’t.
sporticus says
In the PJMedia continuation, CUAD is quoted as stating:
“We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
This puerile statement is typical of what has replaced the sophisticated thinking you would expect at University level.
If nothing else, the deportation saga has highlighted the soggy marshmallows that pass for brains at modern universities.
What’s-his-name who has recently self-deported went to the USA from Africa via the UK. His noble purpose was to do a PhD in “Aricana Studies”.
Why?
Why does an African need to go to America to study Africa?
Do the Chinese go to America to study China, the Long March, or why some say Xi looks like a smiling Panda?
Do Australians go to America to find out why Australia is called Downunder or why it’s mostly uninhabitable desert?
That Turkish woman at Tuffts University had already completed some Education degree and was going on to do some nebulous PhD studies. Why? Why not go and do a job of teaching work?
Also, don’t they have universities in Turkey (aka Turkiye) that offer equally nebulous time-wasting PhD courses?
But it’s all Go West young International Student, find thee a course, get thee a position, a scholarship, and be the worm that destroys the West from within.
Why would the scholar-worms do that?
The scholar-worms are not really sure why they would do that except that someone had said it was a good idea.
I think I know why Boeing is having so many problems.
somehistory says
You’ve made some great points, Sporticus. It’s all for evil ends.
OLD GUY says
Our Universities and Colleges receive Huge contributions from foreign countries. Most of these foreign students are supported by their country paying full tuition and cost up front. It’s a cash cow for our higher Education system, even though these students and the money comes from countries that hate America and want to destroy us.
Another problem with the Student visa is that many leave school or graduate and then overstay their student visa.
James Lincoln says
The Department of Homeland Security needs to take a fresh look at student visas.