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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the law allowing greencard holders to be deported for "expressing" certain views is too vague and inconsistent with our 1st amendment traditions. If I'm a green card holder at a party and I say I think Palestininians are justified to resort to violence I can be deported? What about the new movie showing Palestinian displacement, can I be deported for watching that because someone thinks the film "supports terrorists?"

I might be in favor of repealing the law or having it declared unconstitutional.

But even if the law is left of the books some nuance (unlikely when debating people on the internet or from this administration) is in order.

Is Mahmoud Khalil really a threat to US security or foreign policy interests? If he were a student at an Israeli university or if he were praising Al-Quaeda on September 12 2001, I could kind of see the point of deporting him. But it doesn't sound like he's real threat now in the US. Has he been in contact with Hamas agents or trained people to fight for Hamas? Is he stockpiling weapons or training people to engage in subversive acts?

He's also a(was) student and students do this kind of stuff. It's on Columbia to enforce their rules about trespassing, etc. If he was engaged in discriminatory acts against Jews, convict him of that and then there's a legit reason to deport him.
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ITA.  I have not heard him support actually killing babies, or providing material benefit to Hamas.[/quote]

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