Immigration Judge Jamee Comans ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration met the burden to remove Mahmoud Khalil, 30.
As Professor Jacobson noted before, Khalil faces accusations of leading and helping to organize the numerous anti-Israel mobs on Columbia University’s campus.
You can read about the incidents under our Columbia University tag.
From Fox News:
“I would like to quote what you said last time that there’s nothing that’s more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness,” Khalil told the court. “Clearly, what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process.”This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family. I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months.”Khalil’s team of attorneys have until April 23 to file relief applications.
Professor Jacobson explained why Khalil’s situation is not a free speech issue.
The great professor also explained that there are rules when you come to America on a visa:
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.
DHS attorneys claimed “Khalil misrepresented himself on his green card application.”
They accused him of not disclosing “his employment with the Syrian office in the British Embassy in Beirut” on purpose, working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, and membership in Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio justified Khalil’s removal by citing the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952, which says an alien can be deported if the secretary “has reasonable ground to believe that the alien’s presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”
Rubio determined that Khalil’s activities and presence could cause consequences due to his participation “in antisemitic protests and disruptive activities, which forsters a hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.”
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