Welp, it looks, amazingly enough, like our long national nightmare is close to over.
No, Maxine Waters didn't retire.
An actual judge in an actual courtroom actually ruled in favor of the Trump administration and said they were free to boot Hamas-loving Columbia University 'student' Mahmoud Khalil. He can be deported. The government had satisfactorily met its burden of proof.
An immigration judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from the United States due to his involvement in leading last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.
Judge Jamee Comans ruled in Louisiana on Friday that Khalil, 30, can be deported, saying that the U.S. government met its burden of proof to remove him.
BREAKING: A judge rules that the Trump administration can move forward with deportation efforts for Mahmoud Khalil. | @brooketaylortv @marthamaccallum pic.twitter.com/JmAGnd3RPu
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 11, 2025
Khalil's team has until 23 April to file his appeal. And didn't he run his mouth at the hearing.
WHY IS EVERYBODY ALWAYS PICKIN' ON ME?
...Judge Jamee Comans said during the two-hour hearing Friday that the feds had “established by clear and convincing evidence that [Khalil] is removable.”
Khalil asked to speak to Comans at the end of the hearing, according to his lawyers, arguing she had not given him “the due process and fundamental fairness” she said were so important at a prior hearing Tuesday.
“Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process,” Khalil claimed.
“This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family,” he said. “I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months.”
Khalil won’t be deported immediately — his lawyers will get the chance to fight the proceedings before a final determination is made.
Way to make a terrific impression on the woman who holds your fate in her hands, you pretentious, malignant buffoon.
KEEP TALKING
As the boss said just now, the law is pretty straightforward. As 'long as Rubio had a rational basis to revoke the visa based on nat-sec issues (or green card),' it was pretty much over. When Judge Comers asked for the evidence supporting the request, it seemed she was more than satisfied with what she received back on Wednesday from Sec State.
...On Wednesday, the government filed a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio arguing Khalil should be kicked out because of his participation “in antisemitic protests and disruptive activities, which fosters a hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.”
Rubio’s memo said Khalil’s presence in the country undermines “U.S. policy to combat antisemitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”
Rubio's paperwork is here.
The case for deporting Mahmoud Kahlil is airtight. It is not unconstitutional, because it is not viewpoint discrimination, retaliation, or based on a vague statute. The government has clearly articulated why Khalil’s conduct compromises a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.… pic.twitter.com/sb7alPjNyM
— Ben B@dejo (@BenTelAviv) April 10, 2025
Professor Turley says the successful evidence the government presented will become the template moving forward.
...The Administration made a clear decision to emphasize the statutory authority and noted that Rubio could deport for "otherwise lawful" conduct. In that sense, it went for the three point shot and sunk it in the case, at least pending appeal.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 11, 2025
Today is a win, big time.
As many have noted repeatedly, including our Secretary of State, you do not have the right to come here to enjoy our freedoms while attempting to destroy them.
Set aside Regime Media hyperventilation.
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) April 11, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil and myriad other foreigners like him who espouse anti-Western ideology, serve as mouthpieces for terrorist groups, lead organizations that threaten the civil rights of American students -- or all three -- are clearly… pic.twitter.com/kdEBn2gXqx
...Mahmoud Khalil and myriad other foreigners like him who espouse anti-Western ideology, serve as mouthpieces for terrorist groups, lead organizations that threaten the civil rights of American students -- or all three -- are clearly deportable under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
You don't have an inalienable right to come to America, enjoy our liberties, and benefit from our institutions, then undermine America.
The fly in the ointment here is that this is an immigration judge, not a federal court. Khalil's team is challenging his arrest and deportation in much less friendly environs in New Jersey, so there could well be a wrench thrown in it there. The federal judge in that case has already ordered the feds not to touch a hair on Khalil's tiny, hateful pinhead, and especially not to ruffle it with jet exhaust spiriting him out of the country.
...But the free speech and due process issues that loom over the case may first be scrutinized in federal court in New Jersey, where Mr. Khalil’s lawyers are also fighting for his release. The judge overseeing that case in Newark, Michael Farbiarz, has ordered the government not to remove Mr. Khalil from the country.
On Friday, Judge Farbiarz asked lawyers for the government and Mr. Khalil to brief him as soon as possible on the results of the Louisiana hearing.
The White House has wasted no time celebrating the ruling as only they can.
BREAKING NEWS: "Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, judge rules" pic.twitter.com/J6gxLjHag6
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 11, 2025
That'll do for now.
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