Mahmoud Khalil and the Fight over Free Speech. Plus. . .

On Saturday, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born activist, at Columbia University, after the State Department revoked his green card for leading anti-Israel protests in the midst of that country s war with Hamas.

Late yesterday afternoon, a federal judge in New York blocked Khalil s deportation, as the court weighs a filing against his arrest and planned removal from the country. A hearing is scheduled for tomorrow.

Trump said on Monday that arrests of other foreign anti-Israel activists are imminent, and the State Department reportedly plans to use artificial intelligence to locate foreign students who appear pro-Hamas on social media and revoke their visas.

Foreign nationals who are in the U.S. on visas have no protected right to support designated terrorist organizations like Hamas. But is this new White House policy just? Or a dangerous threat to a culture of free speech?

via www.thefp.com

River Page.

My knee jerk reaction is to toss him out. But might as well let the lawyers look at it first.