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Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
AP ^ | April 10, 2025 8:23 PM EDT | JAKE OFFENHARTZ

Posted on 04/11/2025 1:24:10 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, citing the Trump administration’s authority to expel noncitizens whose presence in the country damages U.S. foreign policy interests.

The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the war in Gaza.

Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs. He said that while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”

“Condoning anti-Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective,” Rubio wrote in the undated memo.

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The submission was filed Wednesday after Judge Jamee Comans ordered the government to produce its evidence against Khalil ahead of a hearing Friday on whether it can continue detaining him during immigration proceedings.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antifajournalist; antisemitism; apantisemitism; apfakenews; aptreason; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; fakenews; hamaspropaganda; jakeoffenhartz; khalil; rop; tds
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1 posted on 04/11/2025 1:24:10 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

You can’t believe a word of what Ass Press asserts.


2 posted on 04/11/2025 1:31:13 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

That is not what the government is contending. AP is flat out lying now.


3 posted on 04/11/2025 1:43:35 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: All

CHECK UPDATE

Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported Associated Press Updated
AP ^ | Fri, April 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM EDT
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4310457/posts


4 posted on 04/11/2025 1:51:22 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Communists next. Send them to Somalia.


5 posted on 04/11/2025 1:52:14 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: circlecity

My question to AP, If someone thought it was okay to kill all journalists and advocated in public for killing all journalists, Is that a deportable belief?


6 posted on 04/11/2025 1:53:36 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: HIDEK6

Whatever.
Get him out of here.


7 posted on 04/11/2025 1:53:52 PM PDT by ShawnShawntheLeprecaun
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

That’s right. If you don’t believe what Trump does, you will be deported, so leftists beware!

This is all part of the “Great Day of the Rope” as delineated in Project 2025.


8 posted on 04/11/2025 2:16:40 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Waverunner

“Is that a deportable belief”

Mahmoud Khalil is an ALGERIAN CITIZEN with permanent residency in the U.S. under the green card program which was revoked.

UNDER Section 237(a)(4)(C)(i) of the IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT of 1952 (INA)” does provide that a foreign national CAN BE DEPORTED if the Secretary of State believes their presence risks “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”


9 posted on 04/11/2025 2:18:37 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

No issue, he must go, It’s just the fake outrage of AP NBC,CBS,ABC,NPR, and all the residents of Martha’s Vineyard


10 posted on 04/11/2025 2:20:51 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: ShawnShawntheLeprecaun

“Get him out of here.”

Totally agree.
May Mahmoud Khalil be the first of many foreign anarchists to be deported.


11 posted on 04/11/2025 2:22:24 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

It doesn’t need to show any crimes. If the government thinks you harm our foreign policy interests or you’re a troublemaker or in any way undesirable, your ass is out of here. You have no right to be here anyway. Buh bye.


12 posted on 04/11/2025 2:22:57 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

“If the government thinks you harm our foreign policy interests or you’re a troublemaker or in any way undesirable, your ass is out of here.”

TRUTH.


13 posted on 04/11/2025 2:24:39 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Should have left the USA and returned to his Islamic sh-thole and protested to his hearts content and then returned to the USA where he kept his mouth shut. Not hard.


14 posted on 04/11/2025 2:52:02 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: FLT-bird

“It doesn’t need to show any crimes. If the government thinks you harm our foreign policy interests or you’re a troublemaker or in any way undesirable, your ass is out of here. You have no right to be here anyway. Buh bye.”

TRUTH! :)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4310453/posts?page=9#9


15 posted on 04/12/2025 1:19:30 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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