It’s Absolutely Legal for Trump to Kick Out Pro-Hamas Protesters; Pro-Hamas Activist’s Deportation Not a ‘free speech’ Matter and Law is On Trump’s Side: Experts

It’s Absolutely Legal for Trump to Kick Out Pro-Hamas Protesters:

Six weeks into the second Trump administration, and days after President Trump vowed to push back on “illegal protests” on college campuses, the State Department has pulled the first visa of a foreign student disruptor, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a legal permanent resident (green-card holder) who engaged in pro-Hamas college chaos.

That’s the right thing to do if we want to fix campus culture. And contrary to misinformed or disingenuous critics, it poses no First Amendment problems.

After ICE agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, Democrat backlash followed.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee posted “Free Mahmoud Khalil” on X. DNC vice-chair David Hogg said it was “one more step in Trump’s authoritarian march, detaining Palestinian . . . Mahmoud Khalil.”

Not only is Khalil Syrian, not “Palestinian,” the Democrats are wrong about both the principle and the application of the law in this case.

Indeed, it’s a basic application of US immigration law, which says that people here on a visa (tourist, student, employment, or otherwise) who reveal themselves to be ineligible for that visa — “inadmissible,” in the parlance of the Immigration and Nationality Act — can have their visa revoked.

Even President Biden’s State Department once told then-Sen. Marco Rubio that it could revoke the visas of Hamas supporters.

Holders of temporary visas, like students, who are deemed ineligible generally do not get a hearing or anything beyond an administrative order that can’t be challenged.

Green card holders like Khalil, on the other hand, are entitled to appear before an immigration judge, who must determine that the government has met the burden of proof to make the person “deportable.”

There is no doubt that the pro-Hamas protests on college campuses across the country are detrimental to the foreign policy goals of America, which include protecting the state of Israel, one of America’s closest allies.

In Khalil’s case, we don’t know the details of the due process he’s been given, such as the serving of a notice to appear in front of an immigration judge. But one thing is clear: the executive branch has the authority to vet noncitizens based on their views, thanks to the laws Congress has passed and the Supreme Court has upheld. —>READ MORE HERE

Pro-Hamas activist’s deportation not a ‘free speech’ matter and law is on Trump’s side: experts:

Khalil is ‘warping the First Amendment as somehow protecting his illegal conduct,’ human rights attorney Brooke Goldstein told Fox News Digital

Legal experts slammed a recent left-wing narrative that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest of a pro-Hamas activist who led protests on Columbia University’s campus is an attack on the First Amendment, telling Fox News Digital the case is rooted in national security concerns and that immigration laws support the Trump administration’s efforts to deport the agitator.

“The State Department has pulled the first visa of a foreign student who engaged in pro-Hamas disruptions. That’s the right thing to do if we want to fix campus cultures,” Ilya Shapiro, the director of constitutional studies at the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank, wrote in an essay for the City Journal Friday. “And contrary to disingenuous critics, such a move poses no First Amendment problems.”

“While the government can’t send foreigners to jail for saying things it doesn’t like, it can and should deny or pull visas for those who advocate for causes inimical to the United States,” he wrote. “There’s nothing objectional or controversial about removing those who harass, intimidate, vandalize, and otherwise interfere with an educational institution’s core mission. More, please.”

Pro-Hamas activist Mahmoud Khalil was taken into ICE custody a day after Shapiro’s essay was published at his Columbia University-owned apartment in Manhattan. The Department of Homeland Security said he was a former Columbia graduate student who “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”

Khalil, who reportedly graduated with a master’s degree from Columbia in December 2024, helped lead the anti-Israel protest that plagued the campus in April 2024, including as a negotiator for radical agitators students on campus as they set up a tent encampment and took over an academic building, Hamilton Hall.

He served as a leader of a group called Columbia United Apartheid Divest, which demanded that Columbia completely divest from Israel amid the country’s war with Hamas that began on Oct. 7, 2023. The divest group said its main goal was to “challenge the settler-colonial violence that Israel perpetrates with the support of the United States and its allies,” according to an op-ed published in the Columbia Spectator in November 2023.

DHS additionally reported that Khalil “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”

President Donald Trump and his administration have railed against the protests on college campuses, which hit a fever pitch in 2024 before Trump was back in office.

The 47th president signed an executive order in January putting pro-Hamas protesters in the U.S. on student visas on notice that they will be deported. —>READ MORE HERE

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