Leftists are outraged about the planned deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, the anti-Israel activist, and recent graduate of Columbia University.
Large crowds marched through the streets in New York City on Monday afternoon. Some of them are even calling this a free speech issue without a hint of irony. Leftist students can practically burn down a college campus if Ann Coulter is invited to speak and get conservative staffers fired for making them feel ‘unsafe’ with their speech, but Mahmoud Khalil’s free speech must be protected at all costs, apparently.
And of course, an activist judge has already stepped in to protect Khalil.
CBS News reports:
Protests grow in NYC over Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist’s arrest as judge says he can’t be deported yetA judge is slamming the brakes on the Trump administration’s attempt to deport a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s 2024 student encampment protests.The judge ordered the Trump administration and attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil to appear for a conference Wednesday morning at 11:30 a.m. at court in Lower Manhattan.”To preserve the Court’s jurisdiction pending a ruling on the petition, [Khalil] shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court orders otherwise,” Judge Jesse Furman wrote.”This is good news and we have to keep fighting, both to ensure that he is released and to protect free speech,” said Jamie Beran, CEO of Bend The Arc Jewish Action.”It doesn’t matter what our views are, we are all vulnerable as long as any one of us can be detained without due process,” supporter Madeleine Elfenbein added…Word of the judge’s decision comes as protesters took to the streets of Manhattan to demonstrate against Khalil’s arrest. Demonstrators gathered at Foley Square to call for his release. That group of protesters then started marching through Lower Manhattan.
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