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The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil suggests that we are living in a new America
Sacramento Bee ^ | March 14, 2025 | Austin Sarat and Katherine Blumstein

Posted on 03/14/2025 6:29:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Mahmoud Khalil is living the kind of nightmare that Americans might associate with the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin rather than the country in which we live. On March 8, as he and his wife were returning to their New York City apartment after eating out, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on them without warning, arrested Khalil and took him away.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: austinsarat; enemieslist; enemyjournalists; katherineblumstein; loonyleft; sacramentobee; terroristpropaganda
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If we had acted proactively and deported those camel humping 911 terrorists who were also here on visas maybe 3000 Americans would still be alive
1 posted on 03/14/2025 6:29:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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>> the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin

unlike the Jews under Nazi Germany

GTH, Austin Sarat and Katherine Blumstein


2 posted on 03/14/2025 6:31:33 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: artichokegrower

Oh no! A criminal was arrested without warning! How horrible!


3 posted on 03/14/2025 6:32:42 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: artichokegrower

It definitely not Gaza yet either, and the Muslim terrorists have not taken over.


4 posted on 03/14/2025 6:34:32 PM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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The main problem is that there is someone NAMED Mahmoud Khalil living in America in the first place.


5 posted on 03/14/2025 6:34:43 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: artichokegrower

A couple of writers wrote alternate history articles with “the arrested Arabs Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdhar, and Nawaf al-Hazmi were said to have been plotting to fly airplanes into buildings in New York City but that was discredited as a right wing conspiracy theory. There is no evidence they were plotting anything. Now they are suing the government for tens of millions.”


6 posted on 03/14/2025 6:35:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: EastTexasTraveler

ICE was doing their job; arresting a foreign law breaker. Deport the arrogant rat.


7 posted on 03/14/2025 6:36:23 PM PDT by chopperk (airhig)
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To: artichokegrower

They just called Trump Stalin. What a piece of leftist trash the Sac Bee is!


8 posted on 03/14/2025 6:37:02 PM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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To: artichokegrower

No one has a right to a visa or green card.
If you come to this country and set about trying to destroy our civilization we have the right to throw you out.
It has always been that way.
The only thing that’s changed is we aren’t currently governed by a bunch of anti-american losers.


9 posted on 03/14/2025 6:37:03 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: escapefromboston

Let’s be honest, Khalil will be popular with mobs cheering his name as they invade Trump buildings, but he will never have the star quality of the murder suspect Luigi. Second rate.

What happened to normal good taste?


10 posted on 03/14/2025 6:37:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: artichokegrower

Morons. Trump pardoned hundreds of J6 prisoners because America had become Russia under Stalin.


11 posted on 03/14/2025 6:40:04 PM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: artichokegrower

I say that the Sacramento Bee is living in another world. What a BS article they have put out.


12 posted on 03/14/2025 6:45:23 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: artichokegrower

Describing it as an arrest is misleading. Technically maybe it is an arrest. I really don’t know. But it’s more accurately a deportation. This guy’s not being threatened with prosecution and imprisonment, just deportation and the left know this which is why they’re describing it using the misleading and more incendiary term “arrest”. Detained for deportation would be more accurate.

And BTW, the government has the legal authority to deport non-citizens even if they haven’t broken a law. The standards a non-citizen is required to meet in order to stay here go beyond just not breaking the law. Even legal protest on behalf a terrorist group like Hamas is grounds for deportation. It’s written into the agreement visa holders sign when they come here.


13 posted on 03/14/2025 6:45:24 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: artichokegrower

Hysterical exaggeration by someone who must think it’s ok to assault and threaten Jewish people in America.


14 posted on 03/14/2025 6:46:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: artichokegrower

Even the American left once shrunk from the butchery of women and children. Not so any longer.


15 posted on 03/14/2025 6:48:05 PM PDT by Spok (What would Rush say?)
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To: EastTexasTraveler

Seriously.....

We’re living in a New* America? I think it’s more like we’re escaping from the old one and going back to REAL America.


16 posted on 03/14/2025 6:50:31 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: artichokegrower

We should deport every non-citizen who attacks our country, or supports terrorists. Free speech, as with all rights enshrined in our constitution, should be reserved for citizens.


17 posted on 03/14/2025 6:52:07 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: artichokegrower

I voted for this. meanwhile, some idiotic mental health counselor on some board advising the Oregon govt identifies as a turtle. I laughed out loud at this ridiculous story


18 posted on 03/14/2025 6:54:07 PM PDT by RummyChick
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“UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky gets it right when he wrote in a recent Los Angeles Times column that “no one can be punished under the law, including by deportation, for the ideas they express.” The Supreme Court, Chemerinsky writes, “long has stressed that the Constitution protects the ability to express views that many find deeply objectionable” “Even if Khalil’s speech was hateful, and even if it was antisemitic, it was protected by the 1st Amendment,” Chemerinsky wrote, “Support for Hamas … is an idea that can be expressed under the First Amendment.”

Kahlil is here by the graciousness of a Green Card since 2023.

Kahlil is the guy behind all those protests at Columbia University for Hamas his activist group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, support taking radical action against Western civilization. Kahlil’s group had terrorists teach Columbia students. Kahlil’s group asked violent extremists abroad for help in organizing uprising.

Kahlil’s Group stated goal is to topple all institutions that benefit from colonial, racial capitalism, and dismantle the state.

Do you know who else is a member of Kahlil’s group?
Ilhan Omar’s daughter.

She was arrested for her activism with this group. She tweeted that she is an organizer with Kahlil’s group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, and the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Columbia.

Students for Justice in Palestine are a part of Hamas, Ilhan Omar’s daughter is a part of Students for Justice in Palestine. Where does that put Ilhan Omar?


19 posted on 03/14/2025 6:55:42 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil suggests that we are living in a new America

About Bloody time!

20 posted on 03/14/2025 6:56:18 PM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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