Trump Border Czar: ICE Will ‘Absolutely’ Deport Legal Immigrants

[Social Media]

 

Donald Trump’s border czar declared Monday that immigrants living legally in the U.S. can “absolutely” be kicked out of the country—even if they have green cards.

 

Tom Homan was asked whether Mahmoud Khalil, who lead pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and was arrested by ICE on Saturday night, can be deported even though he holds a green card and resides in the country legally. 

 

“Absolutely we can,” Homan told Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney. “Did he violate the terms of his visa? Did he violate the terms of his residency here, you know, committing crimes, attacking Israeli students, locking down buildings, destroying property? Absolutely, any resident alien who commits a crime is eligible for deportation,” he said, referring to pro-Palestine students’ occupation of a Columbia administrative building during protests last year.

 

The comment comes hours after Marco Rubio announced that legal residents could get their green cards and visas revoked. “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,” he wrote in an X post that linked Khalil’s arrest. 

 

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, told the Associated Press that the arrest was made “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism.”

 

A petition calling for Khalil’s release has been signed more than 1 million times. Green cards and visas can be revoked if the holder is convicted of a crime or considered a threat to national security, but that decision is made by immigration judges. 

 

Based on a report by The Daily Beast  2025-03-11

 

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[hotsun]

The good news just keeps coming. <deleted> around and find out

[thesetat]

This law is not new. Just the Dems never enforced it. Breaking the nations laws even in Thailand invites immigration to revoke your visa and deport you. I have yet to understand why these immigrants think they can come into America and break the laws and expect to stay? 

It is about time the US government starts getting rid of non-citizens when they violate the nations laws. 

[bamnutsak]

Border Tsar homan is supposed to be accomplishing mass deportations, in the thousands per day.

 

Now he is talking about deporting one person, possibly.

 

More Clownage.

 

 

 

 

[HappyExpat57]

He is correct in what he says, basically if immigrants break the law then they can be deported.

 

What has made this a hot issue is ICE has arrested an immigrant for protesting on a college campus. No charges have been filed, be broke NO laws, but because he was pro-Palestinian in his protest sentiment, he was arrested.

 

This is how it starts.

[thesetat]

24 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

He is correct in what he says, basically if immigrants break the law then they can be deported.

 

What has made this a hot issue is ICE has arrested an immigrant for protesting on a college campus. No charges have been filed, be broke NO laws, but because he was pro-Palestinian in his protest sentiment, he was arrested.

 

This is how it starts.

Inciting support for a terrorist organization is most likely illegal. 

It is one thing to have freedom of speech. But quite another to encourage others to support and aid terrorism. 

I would love to see what would happen to you if you went and stood outside your embassy protesting against something Thailand was doing. For sure arrest and deportation would follow. 

[mania]

In just the past 40 days 90% less border crossing

Now lets dump the millions Joe & Kamala let in

[Bkk Brian]

41 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

He is correct in what he says, basically if immigrants break the law then they can be deported.

 

What has made this a hot issue is ICE has arrested an immigrant for protesting on a college campus. No charges have been filed, be broke NO laws, but because he was pro-Palestinian in his protest sentiment, he was arrested.

 

This is how it starts.

This is how it starts.

 

Or maybe it should be this is where you start distorting the facts.

 

1 hour ago, Social Media said:

Green cards and visas can be revoked if the holder is convicted of a crime or considered a threat to national security

 

[Watawattana]

18 minutes ago, thesetat said:

Inciting support for a terrorist organization is most likely illegal. 

It is one thing to have freedom of speech. But quite another to encourage others to support and aid terrorism. 

I would love to see what would happen to you if you went and stood outside your embassy protesting against something Thailand was doing. For sure arrest and deportation would follow. 

Yup.  Where I live in China just now is very much at risk if I break the law.  So I simply don't. 

 

I do not understand why anyone would think or hope it'd be different in the USA, that's literally stupid.

 

That said, if someone supported a Palestinian?  I can't see how that would break the law unless that Palestinian was part of a proscribed terrorist organisation.  Here in China I saw a pro-Palestinian protest; the police let that protest happen without any intervention.

[dinsdale]

12 minutes ago, Watawattana said:

Here in China I saw a pro-Palestinian protest; the police let that protest happen without any intervention.

Probably encouraged and or organized it.

[HappyExpat57]

28 minutes ago, thesetat said:

Inciting support for a terrorist organization is most likely illegal. 

It is one thing to have freedom of speech. But quite another to encourage others to support and aid terrorism. 

I would love to see what would happen to you if you went and stood outside your embassy protesting against something Thailand was doing. For sure arrest and deportation would follow. 

Two parts to this.

 

1. "But quite another to encourage others to support and aid terrorism."

You mean like that guy did to incite the January 6 riot?

 

2. "I would love to see what would happen to you if you went and stood outside your embassy protesting against something Thailand was doing."

False equivalency, Thailand is not a democratic republic.

[blaze master]

We were told by the last administration that there was no such thing as a border czar.

 

Ps tom is a long time holdover from the Obama administration.

[blaze master]

Repost

[Smokin Joe]

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

Border Tsar homan is supposed to be accomplishing mass deportations, in the thousands per day.

 

Now he is talking about deporting one person, possibly.

 

More Clownage.

 

 

 

 

 

He answered a question that was about a specific person and then continued on to say that it applied to ALL resident aliens.

 

If you actually read the OP before posting you would have noticed that.

[thesetat]

49 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Two parts to this.

 

1. "But quite another to encourage others to support and aid terrorism."

You mean like that guy did to incite the January 6 riot?

 

2. "I would love to see what would happen to you if you went and stood outside your embassy protesting against something Thailand was doing."

False equivalency, Thailand is not a democratic republic.

You can not say what happened Jan 6 was terrorism... It has never been deemed this except in your own brain. 

 

False equivalency? Thailand is promoted and being democratic. How is it false? 

[JonnyF]

Another "feel good" news story.

 

The GOP have really hit the ground running.  

 

Now, ramp it up.