It should go without saying, but America does not need more Hamas loyalists.
But this basic fact seems to frustrate a wide variety of observers across the democratic range. This year, the White House announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been deporting an apparently natural card-holding Columbia University grad student named Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil came to the United States after a stay at the Hamas back United Nations Relief and Works Agency, to research at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. That, he quickly became a head of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest class, a team that constantly and boldly sympathized with Hamas after the Oct. 7 murders in Israel. He acted as a spokeswoman for the acquisition of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia college.  ,
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained,” This is not about free conversation. This is about people that don’t have a proper to be in the United States to commence with”. He added,” No one has a right to a student visa. No one has a right to a green card” . ,
This should be completely clear under the rules. U. S. Code 1227 includes among the groups of deportable creatures” an alien whose appearance or hobbies in the United States the Secretary of State has fair ground to believe would have potentially serious negative foreign policy implications for the United States is deportable”. Clearly, having Hamas loyalists who help guide groups that openly advocate for criminal violence would be within this group. Furthermore, as attorney Andrew McCarthy writes,” If studies are accurate, Khalil was lively as an agent of protestors who carried out corrupt activities. That is not simple conversation and organization, and it would be immoral if engaged in by Americans– however, that is why dozens of Americans were arrested in connection with the school unrest”.
However, Democrats came rushing to Khalil’s help. The Senate Judiciary Committee tweeted out a picture of Khalil with the message,” Free Mahmoud Khalil”. They have issued no like message in support of real American residents being held captive by Hamas in despair tunnels. Their claimed explanation is that Khalil’s conversation is being violated– yet though his activities evidently fall within a category of behavior that is not protected by law, as deemed by the Secretary of State. In fact, as law professor Eugene Kontorovich points out, the Biden administration announced that it would ban travel visas to Israelis who “disrupt or prevent efforts to achieve a two-state solution”. None of the Democrats at that time fulminated about free speech rights. There is a reason why. And that reason is simple: The Democratic Party, writ large, sympathizes with those who sympathize with Hamas.
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A fringe on the Republican side of the aisle feels similarly. There is great inconsistency in the fact that many on the right who object to Khalil’s deportation are the strongest advocates of immigration restrictionism, apparently they are deeply perturbed with Indian engineers working at Google on H-1B visas but are all in on behalf of terror supporters who hate Jews.  ,
Then again, most Americans look at this case and innately understand President Donald Trump’s simple take:” I think we ought to get them all out of the country. They’re troublemakers. They’re agitators. They don’t love our country…. You can have them”. If Trump’s opponents keep taking the side of people like Mahmoud Khalil, they will keep ending up on the wrong side of the American people.
