Democrats Face Backlash for Supporting Arrested Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil

[DonniePeverley]

8 hours ago, thesetat said:

Freedom of speech is one thing. It is not what this guy did though to attract the attention on himself leading to his problems now in the US. 

Although he idd not break any police laws. He demonstrated his intentions to follow terrorism as well as try to coerce others to follow Hamas making him a national threat. He is deportable. What surprises me is why the government is allowing this drawn out show of resistance? They should have taken him and deported him immediately and let him try to fight it from outside the US. Now, all the crazies are gathering to support him which have created even more problems as well as threats to the nation and its people. 

 

 

 

Utter nonsense of the highest order. 

 

I remember the riots last summer in the UK. You had people going on twitter promoting blatant racism, whipping up a racist storm (falsely making accussations that a killer was a muslim), promoting violence. Those same people were crying out freedom of speech, and probably contributed to the mass hysteria brewing up to uneducated masses.

 

Musk, Vance and co whinging on about freedom of speech. 

 

But as usual it's only when it's something they like and want to talk about. As soon as anyone says something they don't like then suddenly they don't like freedom of speech.

 

You either allow all freedom of speech or not. 

[6Hugh_Janus9]

2 hours ago, Evil Penevil said:

 

 

Mahmoud Khalil has received the due process to which a Green Card holder is entitled.  It's not the same due process which he, or any other resident in the U.S., would receive if they were facing criminal charges.  Due process is not identical in every situation.  Khalil is scheduled to appear before an immigration judge on March 27.

 

Here is a screen shot of the Notice to Appear that Khalil was given upon arrest:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a3cbff6-4589-43e1-8455-042fa9555e3c.pdf

 

 

One curious aspect of the case is that Khalil is listed as a citizen of Algeria!  According to numerous press reports, Khalil was born and raised in Syria.  Hs parrents were Palestinian refugees.  Under Syrian law, the children of Palestinians born in Syria aren't considered citizens of Syria.  Khalil is now 30 years old.  He studied at a university in Lebanon, then worked for a Syrian-American NGO.  In 2018 he become a local employee of the British embassy in Beirut and worked there until 2022, when he entered the U.S. to study at Columbia.

 

How and when did he become an Algerian citizen???  Maybe that is part of the reason his Green Card was revoked?

This process is practically unheard of, and it's dismissive to pass it off as just usual practice.

 

1. Normally, a warrant would have to be issued through a judge with presented probable cause, leading to initial arrest. 

2. The charges would be disputed during a hearing with an immigration judge, and if deemed guilty to the charges, they could order to revoke his green card.

3. With no green card, he would then be deported.

 

In this scenario, there is NO warrant, NO charges, and NO immigration judge hearing regarding his charges. His citizenship was revoked without due process by a political figure exercising a decades-old statute that has remained unused in this manner. There will be no due process during the upcoming immigration hearing; the judge does not issue green cards, they only handle charges and can request to revoke citizenship (which was already done). Khalil will just be deported because he has no permanent residency after it was removed *without* due process.

 

It is disingenuous to pass this off as normal, as this case is the first of its kind. It is even more disingenuous to say that he has received due process because he hasn't. 

[thesetat]

1 hour ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

 

Utter nonsense of the highest order. 

 

I remember the riots last summer in the UK. You had people going on twitter promoting blatant racism, whipping up a racist storm (falsely making accussations that a killer was a muslim), promoting violence. Those same people were crying out freedom of speech, and probably contributed to the mass hysteria brewing up to uneducated masses.

 

Musk, Vance and co whinging on about freedom of speech. 

 

But as usual it's only when it's something they like and want to talk about. As soon as anyone says something they don't like then suddenly they don't like freedom of speech.

 

You either allow all freedom of speech or not. 

Hehe.. You actually have the gall to compare this to the UK protest using their freedom of speech?