Lawyers for Columbia University agitator Mahmoud Khalil argued that Nazis can “march and express their beliefs” in the United States while their client faces deportation – warning that “anyone could be next.”
Lawyers for Columbia University agitator Mahmoud Khalil argued that Nazis can “express their beliefs” in the United States while their client faces deportation – and dramatically warned that “anyone could be next.”
Khalil’s attorney, Marc van der Hout, ripped the feds for a “lack of due process” following a ruling in Louisiana immigration court Friday that favored the government’s bid to boot the Syrian-born permanent resident out of the country over his anti-Israel activism on the embattled Ivy League campus.
“Our constitution allows people to speak their minds,” van der Hout said at a virtual press conference.
“Nazis in this country, the Supreme Court has held, are able to demonstrate, are able to express their beliefs – but not Mahmoud Khalil. The Ku Klux Klan is able to march and express its beliefs – but not Mahmoud Khalil.
“We are going to fight for his right to speak out about what’s happening in the Middle East and speak out against what the United States is doing.”
Judge Jamee Comans ruled during the two-hour hearing that the government had “established by clear and convincing evidence that [Khalil] is removable” – a decision the rabble-rouser’s legal squad claims she made before the apparent divisive court proceeding even began.
