{"id":653,"date":"2025-03-10T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:48:34","slug":"border-czar-on-columbia-arrest-absolutely-we-can-deport-a-legal-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/border-czar-on-columbia-arrest-absolutely-we-can-deport-a-legal-immigrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Border czar on Columbia arrest: ‘Absolutely we can’ deport a legal immigrant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Homan,\u00a0President Trump\u2019s border czar, said Monday that federal authorities \u201cabsolutely can\u201d deport a legal immigrant after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Columbia University graduate with a green card. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely, we can,\u201d Homan told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Network\u2019s\u00a0“Varney & Co.” after the host asked about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a leading pro-Palestinian activist, and if ICE can deport someone who is in the country legally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, did he violate the terms of his visa? Did he violate the terms of his residency here, you know, committing crimes, attacking Israeli students, locking down buildings, destroying property? Absolutely, any resident alien who commits a crime is eligible for deportation,\u201d Homan added. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Only an immigration judge has the authority to revoke a green card.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that Khalil was arrested<\/a> at his Columbia residence on Saturday due to his activities in leading the pro-Palestinian encampment at the university last spring. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Student Workers of Columbia labor union\u00a0described him as the \u201clead negotiator\u201d in the protests with the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We will vigorously be pursuing Mahmoud\u2019s rights in court, and will continue our efforts to right this terrible and inexcusable \u2014 and calculated \u2014 wrong committed against him,” Amy Greer, Khalil’s attorney, said in a statement to NBC News<\/a>, adding that her office has filed a petition challenging the validity of the detention.<\/p>\n

The arrest marks the first step the Trump administration has made to deport college students who participated in the nationwide protests last year, which led to the arrest of 2,000 individuals.<\/p>\n

“This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,” Trump said about the arrest.<\/p>\n

Columbia protesters were the ringleader of the movement and saw big escalations between demonstrators and university administrators such as a takeover of a school building and classes moving online. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that’s just one out of many,” Homan said. “We’re going to send a strong message to say, anybody here on a foreign visa, that you’re given a great right to come to the greatest country on Earth and study in our colleges. But when you come here to study, you got to obey the laws of this country. You got to obey the requirements of that visa to be lawful while you’re here.”<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it’s a great privilege to study in this country, but, when we give you that right to study in this country, don’t violate our laws,\u201d he added. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2014Updated at 4:55 p.m. EDT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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