“It seems like the greatest threat, if not “The biggest threats to the first amendment freedoms in 50 years,” said Brian Haas, a senior staff at the American citizen Liberties Union. “It is a direct effort to punish the speech because of this approach.”
Khalil, who had grown up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, has not been accused of any crime. A Dosier It has been compiled by a Canary Mission, a right -wing group that tracks Zionist anti -campus workers, there is no example of threatening or violent speech, only demands for division from Israel. Last year, Khalil was suspended from his graduate program for his role in campus demonstrations, but due to the lack of evidence, the suspension was soon overturned, and completed his degree. The Homeland Security Department has claimed that it has “led activities associated with Hamas,” but this is an impossible, legally meaningless allegation.
It is true that under the Immigration and Nationality Act, any foreigner who “endorses or” supports “terrorist activities” is considered unacceptable to the United States. , Like citizens, free speech is protected.
You do not need to take this liberal law scholar: During Trump’s first term, a legal analysis of immigration and customs enforcement concluded the same thing. “Generally, foreigners who live in the United States territory stand on an equal basis with US citizens to emphasize the freedoms of the first amendment,” It said. Khalil’s arrest, Schilding, said, “It seems that in light of the first amendment concerns, it seems that even the government has made documents in the last Trump administration.”
However, during the period of nationalist hysteria, Overcharch is common. The closest Analog of this sharp moment is red fear in the late 1940s and 1950s, when the truth exploited the widespread fear of communist infiltration to clear the left -handed government and cultural institutions. In his new book “Red Draw”, my colleague Kale Risen wrote about a Supreme Court case in 1952, allowing three immigrants to be deported, who joined each but later left the Communist Party. Justice Hugo Blake, who was dissatisfied with the matter, said that the country was at that time “more disappointing than the first amendment.”
