Last week, a recent graduate student at Columbia University was welcomed by Mahmud Khalil in the lobby of his apartment building, in the morning by four simple -colored agents of Homeland Security in the lobby of their apartment building. He said his student visa was canceled and had a plan to deport him. The Palestinian -born Syrian -born Algerian citizen, Khalil, was the leader of a Palestinian protest, who used the life of a Colombian campus last year. She called her lawyer Amy Greer, and she spoke to one of the agents. When Greer told him that Khalil did not have a student visa nor needed, because he was a permanent US resident with a green card, the agent said that the DHS had also canceled his green card. When Greer asked to see the warrant, the agent hangs.
Khalil is thirty years old, holding a master’s degree in the public administration, and once enrolled in the United Nations. – But Khalil served as a dialogue with the university administration, and in public statements he rejected hatred and insisted that the change in the Israeli government would represent the freedom of Palestinians and Jews. Was it really a fight that the Trump administration wanted to choose?
As it came out, once the administration explained what it was, it was exactly what it wanted. “Here is not the allegation that he was breaking the law,” said a White House official Free press. In a DHS statement, it has been said that Khalil has led the “activities associated with Hamas”, “it is a word that kills significant discrimination between hatred and opposition to Israeli policy. The government’s exile order in 1952 allows an unintentional law of immigration to an unintentional law. Was ready to argue that Khalil’s “continuous presence in this country”, as a Position This made the American purpose more difficult to counter enmity. Not even any particular measures were charged. Khalil was clearly deported simply because the administration did not like what he had to say.
Trump’s most radical actions come together with political power and weakness. At this time, its power is derived from the absence of any effective political opposition in Washington, which allows it to deepen deeply in many famous federal programs (pending judicial decisions in some cases). But the restless, and its never -ending tariff threats, have promoted the markets, and in a short time, in a short time, changed a rapid economic approach to the possibility of misery. When Trump refused to reject the recession, Even Fox News’s Peter Dosi asked sarcastically in a press briefing, if anyone in the White House is shortened. Therefore, it is understood that the president’s campaign will seize a familiar issue – campus protests, especially in Colombia, where he believes that public opinion is towards them.
The problem with Trump is that Colombia, despite the history of student activity, is not really in accordance with the right -wing image of a revolutionary institution. The university has set up a committee and partially reacted to the protests, in which the works of the Associated Press, “have been criticized by Israel.” And thus political achievements have been indirect. First, the administration announced that it would eliminate at least $ 400 million in financing-tension, Trump said, because of the failure to protect the university’s Jewish students, though it had an impact on federal support for a ground system that provides poor health care globally. Then the government went against Khalil. “We are not doing this for polling,” a White House adviser told Equis, “will find social media for antismitic or anti -Israeli statements given by international students, whose visas will be canceled. “But it’s never hurting to be on the right side of a problem.”
If the Trump administration comes to the wrong side of the fight, it will be because the defense of a free speech is a politically beautiful and powerful principle. During the Biden administration, Republicans repeatedly claimed that conservative censorship was suffering. Now they look particularly anxious to affect the flow of speech and ideas. Earlier this winter, Trump dominated the ABC to set up a case in which he accused him of defaming the network, and his assistants had the mainstream from the White House Press Pool seats in favor of the ideologically affiliated organizations (AP). Even clearly anti -breast LanguageAs Veronic de Rigie has noted in Liberin Magazine Reason“In Washington, the politics of left -wing culture and its practitioners are mostly dynamic by rooting out.”
Moreover, Trump and his political allies have coincidentally contested a speech that they do not like violence. House Speaker Mike Johnson called Khalil a “young terrorist”. Subsequently, during a White House program, apparently Elon was designed to promote Musk’s Tesla, which has declined in sales and stock, asked Trump whether the extraordinary events of Tesla dealerships should be considered as domestic terrorist acts. “I will do it,” he said. “We have to stop them.”
When talk of the president’s renovation on a free speech, the liberals should be just as steadfast. A group of progressive members of the Congress who circulated on a letter condemning Khalil’s deportation could only be found in 14 signatures. This is a sign of this, perhaps how Larry Democrats are associated with the protest. But there is no need to defend his views to defend Khalil’s right to speak. Even the fire brand’s conservative observer Ann Colotter can be seen. He wrote about the protesters, “There is no one I want to deport,” but, unless they committed a crime, is this not a violation of the first amendment? “This is.
On Monday, Trump said Khalil’s arrest would be “the first of many people”. At the Federal Court in New York City, at his initial hearing, two days later, Khalil was kept far from the proceedings, Ice Decent Center in Louisiana Rural Jinnah. Outside the Manhattan Court House, hundreds of protesters gathered. He may, like Trump, also realized that Khalil’s case was not the end of a fixed constitutional battle. ♦ ♦
