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"And it's so nice that someone like Riley Gaines, who seems to have no marketable skills can find work talking it up on the American conservative media circuit. That's America for you."

Funny you mention Riley Gaines in a thread about immigration.  She claims her Irish husband can't get a green card because he refuses to get a Covid shot.  I hope he gets deported and takes her with him.  He probably won't since she's on Trump's good side.  Different rules for MAGA.

[url] https://www.newsweek.com/riley-gaines-husband-covid-vaccine-green-card-1987894[/url]

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Did her Irish boyfriend incite violent student protests supporting a terrorist organization after a history of working for them?

Khalil served as a political affairs officer with UNRWA — a UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees — which was stripped of tens of millions in federal funding after an explosive report that some of its members took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel in which 1,200 people were killed. [/quote]

For those who would like a different take in the NYpost article quoted by PP, this link offers one as well as some of the legal issues 
https://cis.org/Arthur/ICE-Arrests-Palestinian-Activist

But PP left off the paragraph previous to what they quoted, for obvious reasons

"Khalil — who did his undergraduate degree in Beirut — told the Columbia Daily Spectator that [b][u]he has not participated in any of the protests over the past week and a half because he is worried about losing his student visa[/b] that allows him to remain in the US.[/u]

Khalil was a political affairs officer with UNRWA — the United Nations’ agency that supports Palestinian refugees — from June through November 2023, according to LinkedIn.

UNRWA lost hundreds of millions of dollars in funding earlier this year when an Israeli dossier suggested that agency workers were linked to the Oct. 7 terror attack.

[b]Earlier this week, an Independent Review Group announced that a nine-week probe found a lack of serious evidence that the group had legitimate connections with Hamas[/b]."
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Just because he claimed he had not participated in the protest does not mean it is true. And an organizer can stay in the wings while the mayhem unfolds.
And look at the timing. 
Per the linked article, he was "worrying" about the student visa in April 2024. In February 2025 he has a Green card by marriage and a heavily pregnant wife. This means that he was already married or about to get married (shotgun? LOL), so would not be needing a student vise for much longer. 
So I would allow that Khalil is not being entirely truthful, in the article and elsewhere.[/quote]

And yet the organization he was involved with was investigated and cleared of wrongdoing.

If he participated in the protests, that is nkt illegal. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean he can't protest. Not everyone who protested was involved in anything that was illegal.

The burden is to prove that he did something illegal, not just that he was involved in protests. And no, I don't count camping out in the middle of campus as illegal. Has that been declared yet? 
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He violated the terms of his green card. Support for terrorist organizations is a deal breaker for those who seek the *privilege* of US citizenship.

Democrats loved to say free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.

FAFO. [/quote]

Once again, I’d like to explain that the whole point of 1A is those consequences can’t come from the government. [/quote]

The law on first amendment issues is not nearly this clear when it comes to alleged terroristic threats made by non-citizens. [/quote]

Alleged is the word

Also, though non citizen, he has rights on the level of a citizen

What were these threats? They would have to actually come from his mouth. And random threats aren't enough. Otherwise Steve bannin would be in jail[/quote]

Are you sure green card holders have the same rights as a citizen?

And even if they do, supporting designated terrorist groups is not necessarily covered by the 1st Amendment--even for citizens descended from Mayflower pilgrims.

It may be a "gray area" in this case, but gray may as well be black when Trump is in office and the US (along with much of the world) is in the throws of an anti-immigrant backlash. 
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