A victory for common sense.
“Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported,” by Sara Cline, Kate Brumback and Jena, Associated Press, April 11, 2025:
JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday during a hearing over the legality of kicking the activist who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations out of the U.S.
Immigration Judge Jamee E. 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.”
Lawyers for Khalil are expected to appeal. And a federal judge in New Jersey has temporarily barred Khalil’s removal from the country.
Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, was detained by federal immigration agents on March 8 in the lobby of his university-owned apartment, the first arrest under President Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on students who joined campus protests against the war in Gaza.
Within a day, he was flown across the country and taken to an immigration detention center in Jena, thousands of miles from his attorneys and wife, a U.S. citizen who is due to give birth soon.
Khalil’s lawyers have challenged the legality of his detention, saying the Trump administration is trying to crack down on free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has cited a rarely used statute to justify Khalil’s deportation, which gives him power to deport those who pose “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”…
Steven Cade says
This would have never happened in the 1980s: Reagan would have never put up with this crap to begin with.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Steven.
And Pres. Trump will not put up with it either.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
Enough with the ‘judge’ in NJ. The goon is a terrorist, an employee of the un-run chapter of hamas. Kick him back to syria. His wife can board a plane as soon as her doctor allows it.
Pity for the poor baby.
somehistory says
One thing I don’t remember reading or hearing is: If they came to go to school and, like this ghoul, got a degree. why are they allowed to stay after graduating? Why are they allowed to apply for a green card that will give them residency?
When someone is given a tourist visa, it expires after a given time and the tourist is expected to get transportation home. Those who don’t, have committed a crime.
So why are these foreigners….whose nations have universities…allowed to come, and then allowed to stay?…
40 rounds says
Good riddance POS
Cynthia says
The Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar money continues apace. Follow the money and get to the root of evil.
Betty Boop says
Hear, hear!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Maybe he can be sent to El Salvador – swapped w/ that Maryland resident whose return SCOTUS has ordered
MrLogical says
He’s just one of many Hamas supporters who need to be deported.
Many ‘students’ here on visas are avid supporters of Hamas.
Agent provocateurs. Find them…
Then deport them.
OLD GUY says
One down thousands to go.
Captain Quirk says
Good riddance.
James Lincoln says
I heard that there’s still plenty of room at CECOT…
Ralph says
The rapidity of the turn-around from the “Come on in!!” of the demented and avaricious Biden to the sudden and all-encompassing actions by President Trump to rid our nation of these treacherous Mooslimes is remarkable. Pity we cannot apply the same rapidity of departure to Mooslime members of congress and any and all others who are pro-terrorist.
Claudio says
Agreed
gravenimage says
Judge rules that pro-Hamas agitator Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
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*Good*.