The case of Mahmoud Khalil is an introduction to revenge: a rare law to deport the supporters of Palestine

The issue of the Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, who was arrested by the administration of US President Donald Trump and pledged to deport him from the United States because of his activity at the University of Colombia against the Israeli war on Gaza, is a test of the Trump administration that seeks to defraud laws that sponsor freedom of opinion in order to deport a number of students who participated in demonstrations for Gaza in the United States, to deliberately in this plan to use a rare law to apply it to the demonstrators peacefully in A precedent that did not occur in the history of the United States. In a statement last Monday, Trump proud to arrest a newly graduate at the University of Colombia, Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian and holds a permanent residence card in the United States, and that he is “the first arrest in a series of upcoming arrests.” It seemed clear that the administration became the intention after discovering that he was carrying the green card to reach a way out to make a decision to deport it.

The danger of the detention of Mahmoud Khalil does not only come from the way to arrest him without an arrest warrant and without accusations of him, but because the White House and the US State Department are building their plan officially on the exploitation of a rare clause in the immigration law, it was used a few times that are not prepared on the fingers in the history of the United States, stipulating that “any foreigner deserts, the Foreign Minister has reasonable reasons for the belief that his presence and activities in the United States may be Possible serious consequences for the foreign policy of the United States, ”meaning that Mahmoud Khalil may be deported if Foreign Minister Marco Rubio decides with his person that his presence is inconsistent with the interests of American foreign policy, and that, as the President said,“ the beginning of the deportation of others. ” Thus, the US government, which is proud of people’s resort to the United States from all over the world because their governments do not allow them to freedom of opinion, will deport one of those who have permanent residence because he criticized another country of allies of the United States, committed – as international institutions say – actions that violate international law and may rise to “war crimes.” Consequently, the Foreign Minister will personally use a rare item in American history to deport a student from the country in order to express his opinion, because he differs with his views or that he expresses an anti -American foreign policy opinion.

The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil … targeting freedom of opinion

The arrest of Khalil is not the first time that the Ministry of Internal Security has been arrested legally residing within the United States and decided to deport them for various reasons, including condemnation of the commission of a crime, as this is done over the years, and it is not the first time that the Immigration Administration has ignored the absence of an arrest warrant in violation of internal laws. There is no difference between the two republican and democratic departments, but this time the difference is targeting the deportation of a person for a reason for the freedom of opinion and expression, says experts, legal and politicians, in a precedent that has not occurred since the 1950s when the United States deported 3 people for their affiliation in the past to the Communist Party.

The US government has not yet proven that Khalil supported Hamas, or that he donated or supported its directions

The Trump administration stated, according to his statements, Rubio, a spokeswoman for the White House, Caroline Levitt, that Mahmoud Khalil participated in activities supporting “Hamas”, but the US government has not yet proven that Khalil supported “Hamas”, which is ranked as a terrorist organization inside the United States, or that he donated or supported its directions, as everything that a graduate of the ancient Columbia University did, according to the videos and reports published, indicates that he participated in that he participated in that he participated in that he participated Leadership of demonstrations to demand the university withdrawing its investments from companies that support Israel, and criticized the policy of the United States, politically, militarily and financially, to Israel in its aggression against Gaza.

In the event that the rare item in the Immigration Law is used to deport Khalil, the question remains about how the Minister of Immigration can prove Khalil’s negative impact on American foreign policy? According to the Immigration Law, through one speech, and according to the Immigration Appeals Council, the Ministry of Justice is not entitled to question the decision of the Foreign Minister because he has the uninterrupted authority in this regard. One of the rare issues that this item was applied to, is the process of deporting the former deputy prosecutor of Mexico Mario Ruiz Massio, who demanded Mexico to hand over, and the US courts rejected the request of the government in Washington that lost the case, which led to the use of this rare item for the purpose of deporting it during the period of former President Bill Clinton, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Warren Christopher, invoke his failure to deport him The United States’s ability to cooperate with Mexico in law enforcement will be exposed.

However, the application of this item requires a comprehensive judicial review, which is dedicated to cases in which a person in the United States may cause a diplomatic crisis, according to law experts told the American “NBC” network. Richard Buswell, a law professor at the University of California in San Francisco, said that it should be “somewhat serious deportation”, and that “the government must prove the necessity of deporting the person.” It seems that for these reasons the Trump administration chose Khalil’s detention in Louisiana and not in New York in which he was arrested, especially since the judicial authority in Louisiana is a reservation, which means that it may be easier to resist the government’s desire to deport Khalil much more than the democratic mandate.

Plans to deport the supporters of Palestine

The biggest crisis is that if the Trump administration is thirsty for the deportation of migrants in passing the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil through this rare item, this will open its appetite to implement its plans supported by Israeli pressure groups such as “AIPAC”, especially with the US President’s public accusing the demonstrators in universities in order to stop the war in Gaza that they “got money and that they support Hamas,” which was actually pledged by Rubio, who said: “We will cancel the visas or green cards for Hamas supporters in America so that they can be deported.” The Ministry of Internal Security also described the detention as “support for the executive orders of President Trump, which prohibits anti -Semitism.”

The case of Mahmoud Khalil is the largest test of freedoms in the United States in at least 50 years

Many believe that the case of Mahmoud Khalil is the biggest test of freedoms in the United States in at least 50 years, and the American writer Michel Goldberg, in an article this week in the New York Times, described as “one of the biggest threats, if not the largest, to the freedoms of the first amendment (Congress does not issue any law for establishing a religion of religions or prevents freedom of exercise, or limits freedom of expression or journalism, or right People at the meeting peacefully, and the government’s demand for fairness for prejudice) within fifty years.

The American Senator Chris Murphy, in a video posted on the X platform, also described Khalil’s arrest as “forced disappearance as it is called in dictatorships, and he is in prison because of a political opinion”, and that “there is no evidence that he violated the law or committed any criminal behavior, but rather opposes America’s policies towards Israel.” He continued: “Why should anyone care about America with this matter, because in America political opinion is protected by the law, whether your main speech admires, but today if you are in support of Trump, your opinion will be protected even if it is a hate speech, but if you are opposed or organized something against Trump, you can find yourself in prison.” Murphy saw that Trump chose to start arresting a Palestinian immigrant, hoping that “he pays his birthplace and his legal status as an immigrant, people to turn a blind eye,” adding: “It cannot be ignored because if it becomes normal, the regime is allowed to be forced to be forced just because they demonstrate against the regime’s policies, whether you are a citizen or a legitimate resident and their detention, then there is no return in America. You go beyond the red lines, and the freedom of expression must be protected.