Mahmoud Khalil is a terrorist supporter and a foreigner with no right to be in the United States. If our country cannot deport someone like him, then we hardly have a functioning country.
Khalil is a Columbia University student and activist who organized the university’s illegal “occupation” protests. He is a green card holder, not a legal citizen, whose green card can be revoked according to U.S. law because he “endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization.”
Democrats turned him into a hero and have led the fight against his deportation. That culminated with Ezra Klein of the New York Times interviewing Khalil on his podcast. The outlet posted an edited podcast transcript under Klein’s byline with the headline “The Trump Administration Tried to Silence Mahmoud Khalil, So I Asked Him to Talk.” And talk he did.
Throughout the interview, Khalil said that “unfortunately, we couldn’t avoid such a moment,” referring to the Oct. 7 attack when Palestinians invaded Israel, slaughtered 1,200 civilians, raped women and girls, beheaded babies, and took hostages that are still being held nearly two years later. Khalil said that the attack was done in part because Israel was close to reaching a peace deal with Saudi Arabia. He argued that the baby murder and rape fest on Oct. 7 had to happen “just to break the cycle, to break that Palestinians are not being heard” and that we cannot ask Palestinians to be “perfect victims.”
Khalil also said that the second intifada, where Palestinians killed over one thousand Israelis, was “overwhelmingly” peaceful. Apparently, one thousand dead Jews is just another Tuesday for Palestinians in Khalil’s view.
EUROPE IS ENCOURAGING A NEW AGE OF TERRORISM
Khalil said all of this because he is a terrorist supporter. This has been evident throughout this entire saga, as he has helped convince a collection of brain-dead Ivy League students to engage in illegal protests, chanting antisemitic slogans, slogans that Khalil defends to this day. If Khalil’s views were clear, he would have (or should have) never been given a green card in the first place.
We have no obligation to let terrorist supporters into the U.S., nor do we have any obligation to allow them to stay if they are not citizens. If Democrats and activist groups succeed in helping Khalil remain in the country, it will destroy what functioning parts are left of our immigration system, as well as the fabric of communities that are forced to put up with terrorist cheerleaders like Khalil.