Khalil is not a protestor; He is a national security threat
Illegal aliens who have been deemed as national security threats have been slated for deportation by the Trump administration. Regrettably, activist liberal judges are blocking these deportations.
Take, for instance, Mahmoud Khalil. Kahlil came to the United States on a student visa and attended Columbia University. While at Columbia, Kahlil became the spokesperson for the Hamas group, which had staged anti-Israel protests and built encampments on school grounds shortly after the Palestinians attacked innocent Jews on October 7, 2023. As you may recall, this militant student group also put up barricades. It did not allow any Jewish students to pass without harassing them, literally pinning them up against walls, chasing them out of dorms, spitting on them, and even issuing death threats.
The student group was so emboldened by Columbia’s initial hands-off approach and tacit acceptance of their cause that it took over one of the buildings on campus called Hamilton Hall. While there, they chanted pro-Palestinian sentiments, smashed windows, and held hostage a few security guards and maintenance workers. At this point, the New York police department finally had to be called in to restore the peace.
Kahlil was the principal negotiator for this student group in talks with the Columbia administration. During the protest, he met with university officials daily and urged them to divest from Israel or face even more protests. This was seen as a veiled threat.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed Kahlil was indeed a threat to Columbia University and our national security. Last week, Kahlil was arrested and scheduled for deportation. His attorneys immediately sued the federal government, claiming a free speech defense as his right to remain in the United States. They also assert that he is married to an American citizen, and they are expecting a child in April as a sympathetic ploy for him to be able to remain in the US. Maybe Kahil should have remembered this before he started his terrorist agitations.
But Kahlil is not a peaceful protester or a human rights activist. He is a radical jihadist who publicly justified the Oct 7th atrocities the Palestinians waged against Israeli citizens by stating, “We tried armed resistance which is again legitimate under international law [but to] Israel it is terrorism.” Israel is not wrong. Murdering, kidnapping, and holding hostages is a form of terrorism. Resistance and defense never include the abduction and murder of children and civilians. We shouldn’t be surprised Kahlil’s ilk doesn’t follow the tenets of the Geneva Convention.
Prior administrations have allowed jihadists like Kahlil to come to our country and attend prestigious universities—one wonders who is financing the educational and travel expenses. Regardless, Kahlil is the stuff of agitators and color revolutionaries who spread their radical ideology by whipping up unsuspecting, impressionable, foolish young college students. And he’s not a kid either; he’s a 30-year-old man who should stayed on the straight and narrow if he wanted to remain in the US.
Unfortunately, Judge Jesse Furman blocked Kahlil’s deportation – for now. Hopefully, common sense will prevail, and jihadists like Kahlil and others who advocate “armed resistance” and harassment against Jewish American citizens will be sent packing.
Judge James Boasberg is another activist judge who also attempted to block legitimate deportations of the criminal Venezuelan gang member Tren de Aragua last weekend. The Trump administration, after invoking the Alien Enemies Act, rounded them up and sent them on their way. This judge issued an injunction demanding their immediate return. Fortunately, the plane was en route to El Salvador and did not turn back.
Activist judges, by issuing nationwide injunctions, essentially nullify the 2024 election. They are single-handedly neutering the executive branch and the constitutional powers of the president. The majority of Americans want illegal criminals and terrorists deported, and for good reason. Hand-picked judges who have the power to stop the will of the people is nothing less than tyranny. Congress must begin checking these judges’ unlimited power and initiating impeachment proceedings.
Very few countries would allow terrorists to act with impunity; the U.S. should be one of them.
American citizens should be protected from foreign criminals and terrorists and those seeking to subvert the country.