Summary
ICE agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader in Columbia University’s encampment movement, claiming his student visa was revoked.
However, his attorney Amy Greer states he has a green card, not a student visa.
Despite filing a habeas corpus petition, Greer can’t locate where Khalil is being held, noting his eight-months-pregnant wife couldn’t find him at a New Jersey facility.
The arrest follows Trump’s March 4 social media threat to defund universities allowing “illegal protests” and deport “agitators.”
Strictly speaking, everyone in the United States has the freedom of speech regardless of their being citizens or not.
With that being said, green cards and the like can be rescinded for a variety of reasons, particularly national security.
Add in the fact the Supreme Court has yet to firmly deny the right of Trump to do anything and the outright antisemitism at these protests, the picture of the future ain’t good for this guy.
Centrists suddenly dislike retaliation against anti-genocide protesters at Columbia.
Give it a few hours and both sides will be the same again
This is not normal. He did not commit a crime. Everyone in these borders has first amendment rights specifically to prevent the government from just declaring some people non citizens and oppressing them.
Don’t you understand?! 1st amendment only applies to things that align with the Trump party agenda.
That’s what makes America the most free country of all.
he isn’t being deported for his views its the fact he was a willing participate in a riot and committed a hate crime you don’t get to break our laws and expect to be allowed to stay
Lol, college students protesting on the college campus is not a riot, he’s not been officially charged with any crime either.
Go back to Reddit.
Where did you get “riot” from…? And hate crime? Riiight.
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/time-escalate-anti-israel-activists-intensify-protests-violent-direct-actions hate crime they are attacking a minority group for reasons of race and religion
The same adl that said that elon didn’t throw a nazi salute.
Why are links to the ADL allowed anywhere on the internet?
- Article is fairly old, though it is stated that Mahmoud is a leader of a sorts in the Columbia campus movement so we can guess he didn’t show up yesterday.
- These protests started peacefully ages ago and the current administration is outright banning them. What are they gunna do, just sit down and take it?
- Palestine is being aggressively ethnically cleansed right now and the US government is enabling it with a smile on its face. Context is important because fighting back against people who consider you vermin is not a fucking hate crime. Zionists can fuck right off.
Secretary of State Marc Rubio also shared an article about Khalil on Sunday night and posted on X, “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
Everyone regardless of immigration status has free speech rights in the US. Rubio is bragging about pissing and shitting on the Constitution. They cannot use immigration to suppress free speech, obviously. This guy needs to released by the courts immediately or American free speech is a complete farce.
His wife is a US citizen and he has a green card by the way. This is how it starts, first they were deporting illegal immigrants with a criminal record, now its anyone pro-Palestine. How long until its anyone that voted Democrat?
They’re doing legal immigrants from Ukraine as well.
Harris wouldn’t have done this, you know it.
Harris of the Biden Harris administration that was arresting student protestors from the start?
Or Harris of the Biden Harris administration that deported more people than trump while dropping the number of new visas issued?
Did they disappear or deport people with green cards?
Answering a question with a question is pretty shitty.
Looks like yes, if you look for the stories. ICE is terrible no matter the administration.
Another one: https://archive.md/AKDGo
On Dec. 17, 2019, my husband, Rodner, and I went to our local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office with our attorney for a routine check-in, a requirement of his pending green card. About an hour later, my lawyer emerged and told me Rodner was being deported.
Dude was deported when Trump was in office. But sure, blame Biden for it to show how committed you are to being uncommitted.
