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The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the U.S. and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes,
said the ACLU's Ben Wizner in a statementWe can deny you that visa,
the U.S. top diplomat arguedThe secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who serve, or are adversarial to the foreign policy and the national security interests of the United States of America,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on TuesdaySpeaking of the pro-Hamas — Rashida Tlaib, and who doesn't talk about our pro-Hamas Rashida Tlaib — she was the lone vote, the only vote against a bill in the House of Representatives yesterday requiring an annual report to Congress on the cross-border cartel smuggling tunnels,
Right Squad host Chris Plante saidI'm thinking that maybe they should deport Rashida Tlaib as well,
Mercedes Schlapp grousedKhalil has not been charged or convicted of any crime. As the Trump Administration proudly admits, he was targeted solely for his activism and organizing as a student leader and negotiator for the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Columbia University's campus,
the members of Congress wrote in the letter addressed to DHS Secretary Kristi NoemIt just shows how she has been someone who has supported terrorists and has been, what I say, not putting America first or Americans first. And I don't know why they keep sending her back to Congress.”
Schlapp addedKhalil’s constitutional rights have been violated,
the letter addedYou know, like the ones under Gaza, but under the border from Mexico to the United States. 402 people voted yes,
he continuedThis is about people that don’t have a right to be in the United States to begin with,
Rubio told reporters at Ireland’s Shannon Airport during a refuelling stop after a trip to Saudi ArabiaWhen you come to the United States as a visitor, which is what a visa is, which is how this individual entered this country - on a visitor’s visa - you are here as a visitor,
he saidWe can deny you that if you tell us when you apply, ‘Hi, I’m trying to get into the United States on a student visa, I am a big supporter of Hamas,’
he addedNo one has a right to a student visa. No one has a right to a Green Card, by the way,
said RubioEveryone here on a student visa, or who applies for a green card, is aware of their obligations, and of the expectations on their behavior as a condition for being in our country,
she said, notingThis is the first arrest of many to come,
Trump wrote in a postAn alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable."
Section 237 (a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act detailsIndeed, it’s a basic application of U.S. immigration law, which says that people here on a visa (tourist, student, employment, or otherwise) who reveal themselves to be ineligible for that visa – ‘inadmissible,’ in the parlance of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) – can have their visa revoked,
Shapiro continued in the pieceThe State Department has pulled the first visa of a foreign student who engaged in pro-Hamas disruptions. That’s the right thing to do if we want to fix campus cultures,
Ilya Shapiro, the director of constitutional studies at the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank, wrote in an essay for the City Journal FridayBeing some kind of ‘spokesperson’ for terror doesn’t immunize Khalil from liability for his acts and the acts of his co-conspirators,
Goldstein saidThe remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention,
Khalil's attorney, Amy E. Greer, said in a Monday statement