You might have seen that and wondered who Mahmoud Khalil is like I did. So I googled him.
CNNBy Chelsea BaileyMarch 11, 2025President Donald Trump has likened Mahmoud Khalil to a terrorist sympathizer. Others portray him as a Palestinian activist, singled out for his outspoken support for his own people.But long before he was arrested by federal agents Saturday night, Khalil told CNN he felt called to advocate for the liberation of both the Palestinian and Jewish people as a refugee.“As a Palestinian student, I believe that the liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jewish people are intertwined and go hand-by-hand and you cannot achieve one without the other,” he told CNN last spring when he was one of the negotiators representing student demonstrators during talks with Columbia University’s administration.“Our movement is a movement for social justice and freedom and equality for everyone,” he said.Khalil, who completed work on his masters degree from Columbia University in December and is a legal resident of the US, was arrested and detained by federal agents after his lawyer said his green card was revoked by the Trump administration.
The thing is because he is here legally Trump just can't throw him out, there is a legal process that must be done first.
A federal judge blocked any immediate effort by the Trump administration to deport Khalil, late Monday afternoon. Judge Jesse Furman ordered a hearing on Khalil’s case to be held Wednesday morning in New York City.[...]“He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent, in violation of the First Amendment,” she said in a statement. “The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful.”
Exactly. To keep protesters who protest stuff that Trumps likes, Trump has ignored the laws to create fear in people with Green Cards.
AP NewsBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and PHILIP MARCELOMarch 10, 2025President Donald Trump warned Monday that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his administration cracks down on campus demonstrations against Israel and the war in Gaza.Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful U.S. resident who was a graduate student at Columbia until December, was detained Saturday by federal immigration agents in New York and flown to an immigration jail in Louisiana.“We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.”
It doesn't really matter what the court outcome will be because it has already had a chilling effect on those here legally.
Khalil’s detention drew outrage from civil rights groups and free speech advocates, who accused the administration of using its immigration enforcement powers to squelch criticism of Israel.He is the first person known to be detained for deportation under Trump’s promised crackdown on student protests.Federal immigration authorities also visited a second international student at Columbia on Friday evening and attempted to take her into custody but were not allowed to enter the apartment, according to a union representing the student.
He is doing the same thing with our community, all of Lord Trump edicts have been blocked by the courts, but Trump knew they would be... so now he has another arch-villain,,, the "activist courts." that rules against him.
In Trump eyes "...the right of the people peaceably to assemble..." only applies to pro-Trump rallies, all others are unlawful! Mark my words, this summer we will see federal troops called out to quench peaceful protests that Trump has labeled illegal!
That the judge who blocked his deportation is an observant Jew says it all … this is just wrong.
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