Khalil gets his own thread
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I’ve mostly seen two types of explanations about the arrest. One is very hand wavy and vague about what he actually did, rather it tends to describe what the crowd did and assume his guilt based, I guess, on having commandeered the bullhorn.
The other points to language in some federal legislation that seems to give the Secretary of State extremely (perhaps overly) broad latitude to declare any non citizen a threat to foreign policy.
But it’s unclear to me which, if either, of those paths the Feds themselves will use.
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It’s not clear the feds know yet either. They were clearly unprepared when they went in to detain him. They thought he was here on a student visa. When they found out he was on a green card they had to call an audible and get a mid level supervisor on the phone.
Seems like someone could have checked that before they sent ICE in.
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Jeannine Pirro pulled the statute and read it on The Five.
All Rubio has to do is have his staff draw up the papers and sign it. It is a non-judicial, non-reviewable decision.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Jeannine Pirro pulled the statute and read it on The Five.
All Rubio has to do is have his staff draw up the papers and sign it. It is a non-judicial, non-reviewable decision.
@Jolly said in Khalil gets his own thread:
Jeannine Pirro pulled the statute and read it on The Five.
All Rubio has to do is have his staff draw up the papers and sign it. It is a non-judicial, non-reviewable decision.
As it should be. Khalil is here at the pleasure of the American government and people. He's not an American citizen and he isn't covered by any laws the US doesn't want him to have. And this is the same way with any other country--if they decide for whatever reason you are person non grata then you have to go. Nothing special here.
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FIRE’s take.
tl;dr:
If constitutionally protected speech may render someone deportable by the secretary of state, the administration has free rein to arrest and detain any non-citizen whose speech the government dislikes. The inherent vagueness of the “adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests” standard does not provide notice as to what speech is or is not prohibited.
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