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Trying to get the timeline right. From what I've read, Khalil arrived in NYC in 2022 working for UNRWA and attending Columbia on a student visa for graduate degree. (Did Columbia have to sponsor him or did the UN?) He lives in student housing on campus, becomes protest organizer and meets an American girl, gets married in 2023, applies and gets Green Card, gets wife pregnant in July 2024 then graduates in December and is still living in student housing in March 2025. Is this right?
Why are we seeing undocumented immigrants on TV that couldn't get legal status for years of applying? Was he fast tracked and if so by whom? Was he aided in getting through the red tape for a reason? Was he sent to be an agitator?
I am all for the first amendment rights for Americans but something about this guy is suspicious.
I’ve read Khalil did leave Columbia in December, but never graduated - sans degree. Also of note is this Green Card holding former student STILL living in student housing is ….. 31 years old.
“ Free Speech” my arse. Khalil is provided material support to a U.S. labeled Terror Entity. Khalil is a foreign national on a student visa who has already graduated, has called for terrorist attacks perpetrated in the U.S., promises it will end only when the U.S. is either wholly destroyed or an Islamist State , heads a group -Apartheid BDS something, calling for removing Jews from campuses and basically, every American institution, calls for violence against Jews, etc. and is not a citizen. In a normal America, he’d be spending life in prison and many of the native born imbeciles would be prosecuted and imprisoned for acting as agents of foreign terrorist entities , domestic terrorists and providing material support to terrorists as a threat to the homeland.
Khalil is only one of thousands of foreign nationals who qualify as yes, terrorists, who have no place in America. Send him back to Syria. He should be thrilled, given their current subhuman Al-Qaeda/ISIS/Al Nusra/Hamas/Hezbollah/Taliban “ government” that nobody is protesting, but should.
My fear is that one day the Squad and the successor to Bernie Sanders will be in the White House and they will use ICE to deport Israelis because they will say “if you are Israeli you are guilty of genocide”. Truth does not matter to the vindictive to the antisemite to the ignorant. The BDS movement is imbedded in the left, it is a badge of honor to sign on to Israel’s destruction.
Occam’s razor. If you’re invited to be in our Country, do not become the leader/spokesperson for an activist group with anti western/America aims. Thankfully, that invitation will be withdrawn under an America loving administration. Just look at what’s happening in Europe. What a mess.
So to be clear: DEI has been eradicated, as well as even the words "women" "gay" and "equality" are forbidden from government; special protections for all minorities have been ended and the "free speech absolutists" have taken over. And yet, an American green card holder married to an American citizen can be disappeared for disagreeing with the Trump Administration? The First Amendment is not simply to protect pleasant, agreeable speech. It is to protect unpleasant speech. It's is in the constitution and been confirmed by SCOTUS time and time again. This arrest is terrorism intending to silence EVERYONE. I can't believe the Free Press, which hammered the "totalitarianism" of "wokeness" -- which wasn't enforced by law -- just social pressure, is not enraged over this incident. The administration is using "antisemitism" as a pawn -- a cynical ploy and convenient excuse to silence anyone who disagrees with them about anything. They do not care about antisemitism. They care about stifling dissent. Actual free speech is under assault and the FP is using their "both sides" kid gloves once again.
Sorry Christy, if these three simple facts are true, it's an open and shut case (even without all his other activities):
-- From USCIS web site, material support to terrorism includes handing out flyers, it's called "distributing literature".
-- Hamas is a U.S. designated terrorist organization
-- Khalil distributed "Our Narrative... Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" -- which came directly from Hamas media office -- to protesters at the recent Barnard "protest".
Obviously, the third "fact" is not ironclad, but is based on recent media reports. If you are a full-fledged U.S. citizen you have the right to distribute whatever garbage you want, but not if you have some kind of contingent citizenship status. How can you run a country any other way?
"Special protections" for minorities?? Sorry to tell you, but special protections never should have been a thing. We have something called Title VII that protects all people from discrimination. As others have noted, this person is an activist for a terror organization.
And The Free Press leaves the assassination of a journalist for last. Not the front page, the very bottom, and very casually calls Alex Jones a conspirator. Bravo!
If you support and advocate for designated terror organizations *at war* with America - you should absolutely, unequivocally, NOT be allowed to remain in the US on a visa, green card, etc.
I'm in 0.1% that supports immigrants who want to work, live, and be productive in any part of the world in the US. I wish them the best, no matter where they're from. Maybe especially the Middle East, where rights are crushed by the worst rulers on this side of the Dark Ages.
But that is for those who want to *flee* religious tyranny and oppression, not bring in here. Those who support the killers of 10-7, bad enough some US citizens do, who are not citizens visiting here and advocating for terrorists who are an avowed proxy of Iran? Remember, "Death to America"? Hundreds of dead Marines in Beruit? CIA station chiefs tortured and executed? Kidnapped US citizens as hostages? You support them as an immigrant, then shame on you - and please GTFOH.
There are certain countries in the world that seem to be historic hot beds for war: Afghanistan, the Balkans,.... Ukraine seems to be one of those countries. Do we really want to tie ourselves to a powder keg?
The disaster in the Oval Office was for Europe, Ukraine and the Democrats who gave Zelensky 'false' courage. While Europe continues down a slipper slope into countries run by global elites, the US is not following. It wasn't disastrous for Trump or his followers and shouldn't have been for anyone. Trump told us what he was going to do before he took office. If you didn't prepare, that would be. . .your own fault as he usually does what he says he's going to do.
Here's a suggestion for the FP and every other news outlet: ignore the British royal family. They're completely uninteresting mediocrities, not smart, not handsome and legally prohibited from doing or saying much of anything. Accordingly, they're of no interest to anyone and nothing about them is news.
It's always entertaining to hear non-citizen criminals wail about their "rights". I believe those rights belong to American citizens whose ancestors fought to preserve them, What exactly do we owe an "activist" with a green card? I would suggest that beyond civility, we owe them very little if their intent is to support those who spread violence around the world, and more importantly, considered to be our enemies. Khalil is/was a graduate student, ostensibly, at an Ivy League university with an acceptance rate of about 9%. It's very possible, a very deserving American citizen/student was denied a place to accommodate Khalil. My personal take would be to deny foreign students a seat when there are many Americans who are vying for the same seat. If a university has vacancies, and all citizens have been accommodated, then consider foreign students.
Maybe it's just me, but free speech doesn't involve taking over administrative offices at an American university. But the zealots at the ACLU will probably come to aid of Khalil who, in my opinion, should be in a middle seat in row 47 of a flight to Syria surrounded by a couple of two year old's with attitude problems. But that's just me.
I wonder how many Progressives would rally to defend a foreign student leading at Columbia a mob of white robe wearing hooded thugs who threatened black students?
"...other civil libertarians aren’t buying it. Our reporters spoke to representatives of free speech organizations on the left, right, and center, who described Khalil’s arrest as “disturbing” and “a chill on protected political expression.”
- Of course they do. Led by ACLU? Another example of law schools grinding out 'independent' judges.
Trying to get the timeline right. From what I've read, Khalil arrived in NYC in 2022 working for UNRWA and attending Columbia on a student visa for graduate degree. (Did Columbia have to sponsor him or did the UN?) He lives in student housing on campus, becomes protest organizer and meets an American girl, gets married in 2023, applies and gets Green Card, gets wife pregnant in July 2024 then graduates in December and is still living in student housing in March 2025. Is this right?
Why are we seeing undocumented immigrants on TV that couldn't get legal status for years of applying? Was he fast tracked and if so by whom? Was he aided in getting through the red tape for a reason? Was he sent to be an agitator?
I am all for the first amendment rights for Americans but something about this guy is suspicious.
I’ve read Khalil did leave Columbia in December, but never graduated - sans degree. Also of note is this Green Card holding former student STILL living in student housing is ….. 31 years old.
There's something very primal in democrats' affinity for fire as a tool for persuasion.
Does a non citizen have the right to come here and stir the s**t pot. I don’t know. That is a good Supreme Court question.
“ Free Speech” my arse. Khalil is provided material support to a U.S. labeled Terror Entity. Khalil is a foreign national on a student visa who has already graduated, has called for terrorist attacks perpetrated in the U.S., promises it will end only when the U.S. is either wholly destroyed or an Islamist State , heads a group -Apartheid BDS something, calling for removing Jews from campuses and basically, every American institution, calls for violence against Jews, etc. and is not a citizen. In a normal America, he’d be spending life in prison and many of the native born imbeciles would be prosecuted and imprisoned for acting as agents of foreign terrorist entities , domestic terrorists and providing material support to terrorists as a threat to the homeland.
Khalil is only one of thousands of foreign nationals who qualify as yes, terrorists, who have no place in America. Send him back to Syria. He should be thrilled, given their current subhuman Al-Qaeda/ISIS/Al Nusra/Hamas/Hezbollah/Taliban “ government” that nobody is protesting, but should.
My fear is that one day the Squad and the successor to Bernie Sanders will be in the White House and they will use ICE to deport Israelis because they will say “if you are Israeli you are guilty of genocide”. Truth does not matter to the vindictive to the antisemite to the ignorant. The BDS movement is imbedded in the left, it is a badge of honor to sign on to Israel’s destruction.
Occam’s razor. If you’re invited to be in our Country, do not become the leader/spokesperson for an activist group with anti western/America aims. Thankfully, that invitation will be withdrawn under an America loving administration. Just look at what’s happening in Europe. What a mess.
So to be clear: DEI has been eradicated, as well as even the words "women" "gay" and "equality" are forbidden from government; special protections for all minorities have been ended and the "free speech absolutists" have taken over. And yet, an American green card holder married to an American citizen can be disappeared for disagreeing with the Trump Administration? The First Amendment is not simply to protect pleasant, agreeable speech. It is to protect unpleasant speech. It's is in the constitution and been confirmed by SCOTUS time and time again. This arrest is terrorism intending to silence EVERYONE. I can't believe the Free Press, which hammered the "totalitarianism" of "wokeness" -- which wasn't enforced by law -- just social pressure, is not enraged over this incident. The administration is using "antisemitism" as a pawn -- a cynical ploy and convenient excuse to silence anyone who disagrees with them about anything. They do not care about antisemitism. They care about stifling dissent. Actual free speech is under assault and the FP is using their "both sides" kid gloves once again.
Sorry Christy, if these three simple facts are true, it's an open and shut case (even without all his other activities):
-- From USCIS web site, material support to terrorism includes handing out flyers, it's called "distributing literature".
-- Hamas is a U.S. designated terrorist organization
-- Khalil distributed "Our Narrative... Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" -- which came directly from Hamas media office -- to protesters at the recent Barnard "protest".
Obviously, the third "fact" is not ironclad, but is based on recent media reports. If you are a full-fledged U.S. citizen you have the right to distribute whatever garbage you want, but not if you have some kind of contingent citizenship status. How can you run a country any other way?
It’s the supporting terrorism that’s going to get him expelled. Aliens don’t have a right to support terrorists.
"Special protections" for minorities?? Sorry to tell you, but special protections never should have been a thing. We have something called Title VII that protects all people from discrimination. As others have noted, this person is an activist for a terror organization.
And The Free Press leaves the assassination of a journalist for last. Not the front page, the very bottom, and very casually calls Alex Jones a conspirator. Bravo!
If you support and advocate for designated terror organizations *at war* with America - you should absolutely, unequivocally, NOT be allowed to remain in the US on a visa, green card, etc.
I'm in 0.1% that supports immigrants who want to work, live, and be productive in any part of the world in the US. I wish them the best, no matter where they're from. Maybe especially the Middle East, where rights are crushed by the worst rulers on this side of the Dark Ages.
But that is for those who want to *flee* religious tyranny and oppression, not bring in here. Those who support the killers of 10-7, bad enough some US citizens do, who are not citizens visiting here and advocating for terrorists who are an avowed proxy of Iran? Remember, "Death to America"? Hundreds of dead Marines in Beruit? CIA station chiefs tortured and executed? Kidnapped US citizens as hostages? You support them as an immigrant, then shame on you - and please GTFOH.
There are certain countries in the world that seem to be historic hot beds for war: Afghanistan, the Balkans,.... Ukraine seems to be one of those countries. Do we really want to tie ourselves to a powder keg?
Loved the Tina Brown piece. Knives out and very keen.
The disaster in the Oval Office was for Europe, Ukraine and the Democrats who gave Zelensky 'false' courage. While Europe continues down a slipper slope into countries run by global elites, the US is not following. It wasn't disastrous for Trump or his followers and shouldn't have been for anyone. Trump told us what he was going to do before he took office. If you didn't prepare, that would be. . .your own fault as he usually does what he says he's going to do.
Here's a suggestion for the FP and every other news outlet: ignore the British royal family. They're completely uninteresting mediocrities, not smart, not handsome and legally prohibited from doing or saying much of anything. Accordingly, they're of no interest to anyone and nothing about them is news.
Royalty, nobility are anachronisms IMO.
PS: IMHO
It's always entertaining to hear non-citizen criminals wail about their "rights". I believe those rights belong to American citizens whose ancestors fought to preserve them, What exactly do we owe an "activist" with a green card? I would suggest that beyond civility, we owe them very little if their intent is to support those who spread violence around the world, and more importantly, considered to be our enemies. Khalil is/was a graduate student, ostensibly, at an Ivy League university with an acceptance rate of about 9%. It's very possible, a very deserving American citizen/student was denied a place to accommodate Khalil. My personal take would be to deny foreign students a seat when there are many Americans who are vying for the same seat. If a university has vacancies, and all citizens have been accommodated, then consider foreign students.
Maybe it's just me, but free speech doesn't involve taking over administrative offices at an American university. But the zealots at the ACLU will probably come to aid of Khalil who, in my opinion, should be in a middle seat in row 47 of a flight to Syria surrounded by a couple of two year old's with attitude problems. But that's just me.
I wonder how many Progressives would rally to defend a foreign student leading at Columbia a mob of white robe wearing hooded thugs who threatened black students?
Progressives????
Progressives ...anyone???
"...other civil libertarians aren’t buying it. Our reporters spoke to representatives of free speech organizations on the left, right, and center, who described Khalil’s arrest as “disturbing” and “a chill on protected political expression.”
- Of course they do. Led by ACLU? Another example of law schools grinding out 'independent' judges.