Much of my theme over the past two weeks has revolved around the current mal-administration's lawless attempts to silence dissent -- and/or speech they do not favor. That is at the core of this Khalil development.
He peacefully mediated and advocated, on Columbia University's campus last year. [Whether one agrees or disagrees with him, he had the right to do so -- just as Charlie Kirk had the right to spew his bile, in a free America.] But for that, by Mr. Khalil, Noem / Miller / Tangerine 2.0 threw him into a hell-hole in Jena, LA for four months. [He missed the birth of his first child, in the process, in NYC.]
He is free now -- living with his young family and US Citizen wife. But the immigration admin. judges have ruled that Noem may label him "deportable" -- based on incomplete information in a packet of papers, about his whereabouts, more than a decade ago. Here's the ACLU explaining what the order of filings will be, as they await word from the Appeals Court, on the overall matter [Mr. Khalil did win out, at trial, against Trump]:
. . .Following the Trump administration’s latest effort to weaponize the immigration system to silence Mahmoud Khalil for his advocacy in support of Palestinian human rights, Mr. Khalil’s legal team today submitted a letter to the federal court in New Jersey overseeing his civil rights case. The letter to Judge Michael Farbiarz explains that Mr. Khalil will challenge a Sept. 12 decision made by the immigration judge in Louisiana that denied Mr. Khalil a waiver of removability, bringing him one step closer to a final order of removal, because of baseless, pretextual “misrepresentation” charges the government added after his detention.
As the letter notes, the immigration judge rushed to a decision without providing a hearing on the evidence as due process requires, engaging in multiple procedural irregularities, and choosing to believe the false charges made after the fact by the government. The letter also states how rare it is for an immigration judge to deny a waiver against a lawful permanent resident with a U.S. spouse and child, and no criminal record. . . .
Kimmel and Colbert are not aberrations -- they are the playbook. Dammit people -- wake up! Onward, resolutely just the same.
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