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He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment,
We were not shown any warrant and the ICE officers hung up the phone on our lawyer,
his wife, who was note named, said In such cases, the Secretary of State notifies the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who has the authority to initiate removal charges,
a State Department spokesperson said in response to questions about the circumstances of Khalil’s arrest Within minutes, they had handcuffed Mahmoud, took him out into the street and forced him into an unmarked car,
she said in the statement Mahmoud has been ripped away from me for no reason at all.”
In a statement Tuesday night, Khalil's wife, who is a U.S. citizen and eight months pregnant, said If the administration began to use that in a widespread way to arrest folks and argue that they’re deportable, that would be an enormous change from historical practice,
If you actually end up doing that once you’re in this country on such a visa, we will revoke it, and if you end up having a green card, not citizenship, but a green card as a result of that visa while you’re here doing those activities, we’re going to kick you out. It’s as simple as that. This is not about free speech,
When you come to the United States as a visitor, which is what a visa is – which is how this individual entered this country, on a visitor’s visa – as a visitor, we can deny you that visa,
So when you apply for a student visa or any visa to enter the United States, we have a right to deny you for virtually any reason, but I think being a supporter of Hamas and coming into our universities and turning them upside down, being complicit in what are clearly crimes, vandalization, complicit in shutting down institutions,
I think we ought to get them all out of the country. They're troublemakers. They're agitators. They don't love our country. We ought to get him the hell out,
Let them go to school, let them learn. Columbia used to be a good school. Now it's been overrun because of bad leadership. That's what happens. Happens to countries, it happens to the universities, and it happens to companies,
