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Robert Spencer comments on the impending deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, the Muslim from Syria who incited anti-Israel violence at Columbia university:

The Trump administration and all patriotic Americans won a big victory recently when a judge ruled that pro-Hamas agitator Mahmoud Khalil, who has become the latest hater of America to become a darling of the left, can lawfully be deported.

It was a classic case of the leftist media giving the public a false impression, and of a judge, along with that same media, once again underestimating the Trump administration. The establishment media has been hysterically insisting for weeks now that Khalil was in danger in being deported solely because he expressed views that Trump and his administration disliked. Leftist propagandists — that is, the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, and the rest — have been claiming that Khalil is the victim of a dictator-in-the-making who wants to destroy the freedom of speech.

And so, Judge Jamee E. Comans, a Louisiana immigration judge, peremptorily gave the federal government exactly 24 hours to provide her with its evidence against Khalil. If she deemed this evidence to be insufficient, she said, “then I am going to terminate the case on Friday.” Marc Van Der Hout, one of Khalil’s large army of attorneys, claimed that “the government has not produced a single shred of evidence to date to support any of its allegations or charges in this case including its outrageous position that Mahmoud’s mere presence and activities in this country have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”

After seeing the evidence that the government provided, however, on Friday, Comans did not terminate the case against Khalil. Instead, she ruled that Khalil could indeed be deported. The Associated Press reported that Comans “said at the conclusion of a hearing in Jena that the government’s contention that Khalil’s presence in the United States posed ‘potentially serious foreign policy consequences’ was enough to satisfy requirements for his deportation. Comans said the government had ‘established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable.’”

As you no doubt expect, this isn’t the end of the matter: “Lawyers for Khalil are expected to appeal. And a federal judge in New Jersey has temporarily barred Khalil’s removal from the country.” Nonetheless, the fact that Comans ruled in the administration’s favor is a massive triumph for Trump in his efforts to restore sanity to immigration policy and remove from the country all those who take advantage of America’s hospitality and generosity to work against its interests.

Obviously, all concerned must remain vigilant if we're to ensure men like Khalil will be deported. For now, this is important news, and also reveals just how much bad backing the defendant has when it comes to lawyers.

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