ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests
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1) No one is arguing that Khalil is or was in the US illegally or without documentation.
2) He is in the US as a permanent resident with a green card and has a pregnant American wife.
3) Neither his wife nor lawyer have been told why he was arrested or where he is currently being held.
4) When his wife tried to visit him in New Jersey after his arrest, she was told he had been moved, possibly to Louisiana.
5) Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration “will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
They’re doing that because they need to move fast for this whole project to work. They haven’t captured so much of the government that they won’t get bogged down if they do it the right way. They need momentum and progress rolling into April 20th (due date for the “should I invoke the insurrection act?” reports Trump ordered to be created—takes time to get the wrong people out of the way so orders to send the military into “sanctuary cities” to enforce immigration law won’t be resisted, so they couldn’t do it immediately; and they may just use the threat of it, backed by the reports, to get cities to do the Feds’ jobs for them on the cities’ dime, I guess that’s the “if we’re lucky” outcome)
The IHRA definition of antisemitism, which they've adopted, circumscribes speech that is critical of Israel, even if true, as antisemitism.
That type of hate speech legislation isn't usually applied to states but is fairly bilaterally supported in American politicians fever dreams.
Unfortunately, none of this is acceptable so long as the first constitutional amendment stands.
> (b) Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.
April 20th is 90 days out from that (though it could come sooner, and it may already have—the report won’t necessarily be public, as many such reports aren’t and shouldn’t be).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/decl...
[edit] “this proclamation” here means the EO itself, or rather, the parts of it that declare a state of emergency “at the southern border”. Emergency powers are also how he’s levying tariffs without Congress.
I haven't seen a lot of legal pushback on this stuff as opposed to a lot of the other stuff that has been injuncted.
But at least Joe Biden got the message of what we thought about his Israel policies!
It feels like the perverse incentive is the goal. After all, if only American citizens retain the right to protest certain policies they don't like, they have a strong incentive to have less American citizens.
The US immigration system doesn’t allow supporters of the Nazi regime, for example. There is a direct question in the citizenship form - “Have you ever been a member of a group such as…”.
The Supreme Court generally allows exceptions to Constitution rights if the government can’t implement an otherwise legal law that the government is entitled to implement - like screening immigrants.
You seem to assert it's indefinite, which is clearly not constitutional.
Maybe that's the reason for the wait on citizenship.
Until that time, you are an immigrant with temporary permission to reside in the US.