A Supreme Deal For Deported Khalil

Columbia’s Mahmoud Khalil is going to be deported for alleged terrorist activity (not just anti-Jewish speech) no matter what far left Dems or an activist woke NY judge says, even if it takes the U.S. Supreme Court to get it done.

That’s pretty much the down & dirty of what’s going to happen, says WSJ’s William McGurn, to the “leader of last year’s anti-Israel protests.” The columnist hedges a bit by saying “he may lose his green card & be deported.” But, then he recites history & the facts of the case. It’s pretty much a black & white deal for Khalil: “We’ve been here before. In his first term, Mr. Trump issued a series of executive orders that became known as the travel ban. The last order restricted entry for nearly all visitors from six mostly Muslim countries as well as North Korea & Venezuela. Lower courts blocked the ban, but in 2018 the Supreme Court allowed it. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts declared Mr. Trump’s proclamation falls “squarely within the scope of Presidential authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act.”

As Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute noted, “All the Trump Administration is doing is a basic application of the law. The INA says people can have their visas pulled or denied for membership in or support of terrorist organizations. That goes for green cards, too …” As Berkeley law professor John Yoo agreed, sure, “there will be a district judge somewhere who says that the president cannot use that power to punish people based on their First Amendment-protected beliefs and speech. But the Supreme Court will ultimately uphold the law.” So, the deal’s done. Just a matter of time before Team Khalil realizes it.

Davd Soul