Secretary Marco Rubio Defended the detention and possible deportation of the former protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia University, because critics claim that things are going against the first amendment.
Rubio spoke with reporters on Shannon Airport in Ireland on Wednesday and said that the problem is ‘not about free speech’. Rubio discussed the situation during a fuel stop on the way to the G7 ministers of Foreign Affairs Meeting in Canada After conducting negotiations on the Ukraine war in Saudi Aarabia.
A federal judge in Manhattan is expected to consider arguments from Khalil’s lawyers on Wednesday morning that challenge the withdrawal of the Trump administration of his green card.
“When you come to the United States as a visitor, what a visa is – that’s how this person entered this country, on a visitor visa – as a visitor, we can deny you that visa,” said Rubio. “When you tell us when you Apply, ‘Hi, I’m trying to get into the united States on a student Visa. I am a big supporter of Hamas, a murderous, barbaric group that kidnaps children, that rapes teenage takes, is that tanage, conds, is that, istness, conds, that allness, iste -girls, that alles, datives, datives, datives, that alles, datives, that alles, that alles, that alles, datives, datives, datives, that alles, that alles, that allness, datives, datives, datives, that alles, that alles, that alles, that alles, that alles, that alles thattives, that allness, datives, that allness, there, is that teenage teenage tanage, datives, that alles thattives, that’s that allness, there. returns more bodies than live hostages,’ if you tell us that you are in favor of a group like this and if you tell us when you apply for your visa, ‘and by the way, I Ben van plan om naar je land te komen als student en alle soorten anti-joodse student, antisemitische activiteiten, ik ben van plan je universiteiten te sluiten, ‘als je ons al deze dingen vertelde toen You have requested your visa, we would deny your visa. ”
State Secretary Marco Rubio speaks on 12 March 2025 during a fuel stop on Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty images)
“If you really do that once you are in this country with such a visa, we will withdraw, and if you have a green card, not citizenship, but a green card as a result of that visa while you are here, we will kick you.” This is about people who are not the right to be in the United States to start with. Nobody is entitled to a student visa. Nobody has a right to a greed. ”
“So if you request a student visa or a visa to enter the United States, we have the right to deny you for almost any reason, but I think it’s being A proponent of Hamas And coming to our universities and turning them upside down, being complicit in what clear crimes, vandalization is, complicit in the conclusion of institutions, “Rubio added.” There are children in these schools that cannot go to class. You pay all this money to these expensive schools that must be of great esteem, and you can’t even go to class. You are afraid to go to class because there are crazy people with covers on their faces scream frightening things. If you told us that you were planning to do that when you came to America, we would never have let you in. And if you do it once you get in, we will withdraw it and kick you out. ”
Federal Immigration Authorities arrested Khalil in his university in New York on Saturday and was transported to a detention center in Louisiana. A student organizer during last year’s anti-Israeli protests, Khalil was born in Syria from Palestinian parents and received a student visa to enter the US to attend Columbia in 2022. He has since obtained a green card and is married to an American citizen who is said to be eight months pregnant.
Jesse Jesse Furman of the American district of the southern district of New York temporarily blocked the Deportation of Khalil as the case takes place. His lawyers claim that his constitutional rights of freedom of expression and a decent process were violated under the first and fifth amendments and submitted a motion that disputed the validity of Khalil’s detention. They insist on Khalil to return to New York, while Trump’s lawyers say that they are planning to submit a motion to dismiss or transfer the case from the southern district of New York on Wednesday evening. They say that the federal court of Manhattan is ‘an incorrect location’.
A federal judge in Manhattan is expected to consider arguments from Khalil’s lawyers on Wednesday morning that challenge the withdrawal of the Trump administration of his green card.
Demonstrants gather on Foley Square to protest against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil on Monday 10 March 2025 in New York City. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Sources tell Fox News that Khalil is being investigated as a potential threat of national security. Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs say that Khalil’s activities in the US ‘potentially seriously adverse consequences for foreign policy for the United States would have.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Said Tuesday the Immigration and Nationality Act Gives Rubio The Right to Revoke a Green Card Or Visa From An Individual Considered “Adversarial to the Foreign Policy and National Security Interests of the United States of Thet Coming to the United States to Study at One of America’s Finest Institutions “By Siding With Terrorists, Hamas Terrorists, Who Have Killed Innocent Men, Women and Children.”
President Donald Trump, right, accompanied by senior adviser to the White House, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, speaks next to a Tesla model Y on the southern lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images))
After driving in a Tesla with Elon Musk in the White House, Trump spoke to his promise that Khalil’s detention would be the first of many Anti -Semitic campus unrest.
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“I think we’ll have to take them all out of the land. They are noise kickers. They are agitators. They don’t love our country. We must have him released on God’s sake,” Trump said on Tuesday. “I also heard his statements. There were enough bad. And I think we should take him out of the land for God’s sake … I looked at him, I looked at tires, especially, I looked at tires …> you can have him, okay? You can have it, and you can have the rest. ”
“Let them go to school, let them learn. Columbia used to be a good school. Now it is overwhelmed because of bad leadership. That is what happens. Landing happens, it happens with the universities, and it happens with companies,” Trump said.
Maria Paronich and Bill Melugin from Fox News have contributed to this report.
