Mahmoud Khalil “will get some due process, but nobody should feel sorry for him”
“He came here apparently for the specific purpose of tearing down our country. And we have immigration rules that allow us to remove such a person from the country.”
I appeared on Fox Business Evening Edit with Liz MacDonald to talk about the immigration case of Mahmoud Khalil, one of the masterminds of the campaign of terror on the campus of Columbia University.
Khalil currently is in DHS custody in Louisiana, on a Notice to Appear. There is a court battle in Manhattan, were the government has moved to dismiss the federal court case based on improper venue.
I talked about the Khalil case on The Tony Katz Show, and a clip from that segment formed the context of the Fox Business appearance.
Partial Transcript (auto-generated, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity)
MacDonald (01:02):
…. And joining now is at Cornell University Professor, professor William Jacobson. Sir, thank you so much. A pleasure to see you. Thank you for joining us. Can you explain and break down this issue why it’s not a First Amendment rights issue?
WAJ (01:33):
Because when you come here on a visa, and if you eventually obtain a green card, you’re not a citizen. You don’t have the full rights that we have as citizens. And you come here on the condition that you comply with the immigration laws and the immigration laws do allow to deport people, even if they have not committed a crime. If he made some of the statements he made as a US citizen, you either prosecute him or you leave him alone. But when you come here on a visa and then a green card, there are provisions in the immigration laws that allow for your removal.
So it’s not that you have no free speech rights, but you have rights that are subject to the immigration laws that do not apply to US citizens.
MacDonald (02:12):
Got it. So Secretary of State Marco Rubio, professor said this is about people that don’t have a right to be in the US to begin with. That no one has a right to a visa. No one has a right to a green card. The US has a right to deny that for virtually any reason. Notably, a supporter of Hamas, a murderous barbaric group that kidnaps children, rapes teenage girls, kidnaps and takes hostages, including Americans and let other hostages die in captivity.
WAJ (02:39):
Yeah, this guy ran a group that not only created a reign of terror on Columbia’s campus, his entire time in the US has been devoted to depriving Americans of their rights on campuses, their right to free speech, their right to an education.
Nonetheless, we are a country that will afford him some due process. He’s now in the immigration system. He will get a hearing before an immigration judge. So he’s not without any rights.
Bbut nobody should feel sorry for him. He came here apparently for the specific purpose of tearing down our country. And we have immigration rules that allow us to remove such a person from the country.
MacDonald (03:19):
Remove them. And, you know, didn’t he block help block students from going to class at Columbia depriving those students of their own rights, their education, their right to free speech?
WAJ (03:29):
Sure. The group he ran, which has said that it is devoted to tearing down Western civilization, had building takeovers at Columbia, blockades at Columbia, harassment of people at Columbia. So this is somebody who is manipulating our system. Nonetheless, our system will give him some due process, but nobody should cry a tear for him because he came here and he did things to destroy our society, and now he’s invoking the First Amendment to try to justify what he did.
Again, we are better than that in the sense that he will get some due process, but nobody should feel sorry for him.
MacDonald (04:05):
Professor Jacobson, a pleasure to have you on.
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The type of guy that eventually goes to flight school.
Those that fund these haters and destroyers also deserve to be accountable.
Can we just strap these non-citizen agitators to rockets and blast them out to anywhere but here?
They are not Americans. They are here to cause trouble.
Buh Bye…. be gone.
Go away now.
“Because when you come here on a visa, and if you eventually obtain a green card, you’re not a citizen. You don’t have the full rights that we have as citizens. And you come here on the condition that you comply with the immigration laws and the immigration laws do allow to deport people, even if they have not committed a crime. If he made some of the statements he made as a US citizen, you either prosecute him or you leave him alone. But when you come here on a visa and then a green card, there are provisions in the immigration laws that allow for your removal.
So it’s not that you have no free speech rights, but you have rights that are subject to the immigration laws that do not apply to US citizens.”
Milhouse…?
Milhouse…?
Milhouse…?
Don’t worry. The resident “I know everything you bunch of plebs” will be along shortly to lecture you on why anyone in the US on a Visa can never be deported for any reason.
Hey, now. Outhouse went to the finest pretend law school.
I’m a barbarian. Just kill him now painfully and with extreme prejudice before he comes back in the future to cause us more problems. Yes it’s illegal but I don’t f’g care. The way I look at it is it is going to be him or me, and it’s not going to be him.
Kosher post
Agreed
Not going to be you
Thank you for the correction.
He’s hypocritically invoking protections afforded to him by the system he wants destroyed. If he had real principles, he wouldn’t invoke those protections and neither would his supporters.
Principals, please , I almost
Choked
No need to choke. I didn’t say he had them, I speculated on what he might do if he had them! We can see from his behavior that he has none.
This is the same principle that prevents murders from arguing against the death penalty.
Estoppel is one of my favorite legal concepts, and it’s just fun to say out loud.
Exactly the double standard is egregious. He wants to tear town western civilization but is now begging that same civilization to save his privledged life. Must be nice to be a master’s student at Columbia who s basically a professional protestor and agitator, all while getting married and having a kid and still living in the cushy dorms. He gets to hob nob with Ilhan Omar’s daughter hang out w/ AOC for selfies; yup his life is so hard. It’s okay for him to deny his fellow students their right to an education of course in his little twisted mind, because those students aren’t as human or as important as him. Can we stop admitting twisted little professional protestors like him into American graduate programs. Let them get their hate degrees in England or Australia, and cause chaos there.
He has already had all the process he deserved. Just kick his ass out
I bet the jail he is in is far better than the conditions the hostages in Gaza endured. Just deport his nasty, terrorist loving ass to Gaza and be done with it.
I think that when all is said and done we will find out quite a number of these “protests” are being run by people with links to terrorist groups, people are being paid and it’s all fake like the protests at Tesla dealerships that suddenly appeared out of nowhere and those occupation camps on campi that all seem to feature the same green tent. Who is running them? Who is paying for them?
Citizenship matters. Aliens, even lawfully present resident Aliens (aka green card holders), can be stripped of their status and deported. Heck under a few narrow circumstances even naturalized Citizens can be stripped of their grant of Citizenship and deported. Only natural born US Citizens may not be deported. It is well past time the distinctions between the various categories of folks in the USA were emphasized. Very oversimplified, natural born Citizens are the owners of the USA and every other category of person in the USA is here on our sufferance which may, under certain circumstances, be withdrawn.
TY.
Meant to upvote but fat-thumbed the thumb.
No worries. DV don’t bother me.
That’s Professor Jacobson, as always the honorable position.
BTW Professor, some time ago I was asking all the influential people on the Right what our Red Lines were, more specifically – what would need to occur for you to abandon the Rule of Law and pick up a rifle. Dumb question I know, I was younger then.
I think I posed the question here 2-3 times over the course of as many years. Never got a reply, I assumed because you were busy with more important things.
I didn’t like leaving your answer blank, I knew you weren’t a coward. So I tried to think outside the box (at least my own) and try to imagine an honorable reason you would refuse to abandon the Ruke of Law and rely on violent solutions. I found it. I call it the Jacobson Rule even though you never said this: if violence is necessary to save the Republic then it’s no longer worth saving.
I don’t necessarily believe that but it’s a valid position. If we have lost our way to the point thst violence is the only solution, then perhaos we are no longer deserving of a Republic. If the people have gone bad, it can’t be restored, it will just fall apart again
I thought you should kmow just in case you disagree
. If we have lost our way to the point thst violence is the only solution, then perhaos we are no longer deserving of a Republic
1776
Maybe violence wouldn’t be the only solution but once in a while wouldn’t you just love to break the nose of one of these jew haters?
You could apologize right after.
No
Need to apologize
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands,
hoist the black Flag and begin slitting throats.” — H.L. Mencken
Women too!!!
Do you not remember how our country started? Do you not understand the reason for the 2nd amendment? Violence is sometimes the only option to the tyranny of the government.
Was that a question for me?
Clearly I believe in our forefathers decisions in 1776
Western Europe, pay close attention to this. Eastern Europe, keep up the good fight. Poland, excellent job controlling your borders and maintaining your culture.
He is not a citizen, correct?
Refugee status is to provide refuge not a platform to advocate for or against any policy of your hosting country.
If you show yourself to be an ingrate, deported you shall be..
The solution to the problem is simple. Enforce the laws on the books. That the mush brains are depriving others of their civil rights in keeping students from attending classes, may warrant wholesale arrest and confinement until their parents can come get them. Obviously, they are not mature enough to be out in civilized society.
Of course, the alternative is to let vigilante justice take a hand in setting them on a straight path. Life is hard, especially if you are stupid(liberal).
Mr. Branca hits it out of da park…
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1kvKpyzqLQmGE
Is Mahmoud Khalil getting special treatment because he is a CIA asset ?
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