BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| JENA, LOUISIANA
Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can apparently now be removed from America as a national security risk, according to an immigration judge in Louisiana. He ruled today during a hearing over a deporting the activist who engaged in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Khalil's attorney, Marc Van Der Hout, disagrees.
“Today, we saw our worst fears play out: Mahmoud was subject to a charade of due process, a flagrant violation of his right to a fair hearing, and a weaponization of immigration law to suppress dissent,” Van Der Hout said in a statement.
With the winds of change from the Trump Administration, the government disagrees. Non-citizens who participate in demonstrations like this should be expelled from the country for expressing views that the administration considers to be antisemitic and pro-hamas.
Khalil was accused of organizing the occupation of the university, and the Trump administration said it was taking at least $400 million in federal funding away from research programs at Columbia & the medical center.
Khalil's lawyers have challenged the legality of his detention, and said that the Trump administration is trying to crack down on free speech.
Per APNEWS:
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.”
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