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Immigration officials arrest second person who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia

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Khalil will have his green card reinstated by the courts.

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In court papers, lawyers for the Justice Department said Kahlil was detained under a law allowing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to remove someone from the country if he has reasonable grounds to believe their presence or activities would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.

Can we deport Trump and minions for having serious adverse foreign policy consequences for their presence?

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So, tu sum up the Trump administration: violent insurrectionists get pardons, students peacefully protesting get arrested.

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Free speech, anybody?

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Sadly, America is turning into Russia. Anyone speaking out against the government (or just its leader) is summarily kidnapped and taken away. Trump wants all Americans to act a certain way, talk a certain way, look a certain way, and be a certain type of person. The freedoms that were once guaranteed in our Constitution are now being threatened.

So, tu sum up the Trump administration: violent insurrectionists get pardons, students peacefully protesting get arrested.

That seems to be the normal thing with this administration. "Do as I say, but not as I do." That's Trump's motto. Protesting, even peacefully, will get you thrown in jail, if what you are saying in your protests doesn't match Trump's ideas. On the other hand, if you are protesting a cause that Trump agrees with, even if your protest turns violent, then you're deemed a hero.

A person is considered a DEI hire, if their beliefs do not match his beliefs. However, if you promise to be loyal to Trump, then you can be hired, even if you are totally unqualified and have no experience whatsoever.

To Trump, he'll accuse all federal employees (or at least the majority of them) of not working, even though he himself has hired people who don't work or abuse their positions for their own selfish pursuits.

He'll accuse federal workers of incompetence, even though his own hired Musk DOGE team has wastefully fired people without knowing what they actually do and what their performance level is, and then waste time and money to rehire them.

He'll accuse his opponents of inciting violence, when they warn people that Trump is a threat to democracy (which is a fact), but he turns around and always uses the most hateful rhetoric and namecalling you can imagine. His words even incite violence and hatred towards minorities, like he did when he wrongfully said that Haitian immigrants (who were legal), were eating people's pets.

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vowing on social media to deport students he said engage in “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.”

yep, voted for that too!

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Khalil will have his green card reinstated by the courts

Not necessarily.

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yep, voted for that too!

So of course you also support arresting the "Jews will not replace us" dudes, right? And the extremely and openly antisemetic terrorist organization known as "Proud Boys". Right?

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No, not at all.

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deport students he said engage in “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.”

these are non American guests in our country.

do you support of this type of behavior from guests?

you can have your “freedom of speech”- while speaking from your own country, not mine.

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these are non American guests in our country.

People with green cards are not "guests", they are permanent residents.

do you support of this type of behavior from guests?

What type of behavior? "Protesting"? Everyone should have a right to protest, of course.

you can have your “freedom of speech”- while speaking from your own country, not mine

It's not your country though.

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you can have your “freedom of speech”- while speaking from your own country, not mine.

Then you're basically saying that since you're in Japan now, I assume, anything you say that can be deemed negative towards Japan, would be a basis for the Japanese government to deport you since you are as you say "a guest" in their country, whether you're a permanent resident, on a student visa, on a work visa, or not.

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would be a basis for the Japanese government to deport you

Correct!

now you get it.

you don’t know this?

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It's not your country though.

when I am a natural born citizen it is.

green cards of guests can be revoked.

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What type of behavior?

“pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.”

this behavior.

you actually support this?

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Correct!

now you get it.

you don’t know this?

Well then, be careful what you say in Japan because you could be deported soon.

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Correct!

now you get it.

you don’t know this?

Also, you basically are saying that what Russia, North Korea, China, and other communist or autocratic nations do to its citizens in silencing them, even if it goes against every human rights law, is acceptable?

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when I am a natural born citizen it is.

Nope. Still not your country.

this behavior.

You mean the thing that the demonstrators weren't doing at all and that Trump dishonestly described to justify his undemocratic actions and that you're now dishonestly parroting because you have no real argument?

you actually support this?

Of course not! That's why I don't support the Proud boys.

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Also, you basically are saying that what Russia, North Korea, China, and other communist or autocratic nations do to its citizens in silencing them, even if it goes against every human rights law, is acceptable?

“its citizens”?- no, I’m not talking about citizen free speech.

no I am saying as a guest in Japan with a green card, I have zero “free speech” to protest the Japanese government.

if I’m stupid enough to do so, PR revoked and deported is an expected and justified result.

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green cards of guests can be revoked.

There are specific requirements for a green card to be revoked.

I haven't seen where this person violated any of those terms.

His arrest appears to be simple abuse of power by Trump and he will have no trouble finding a lawyer, suing the President and winning multi-millions of dollars to help his family. I only regret that Trump won't have to pay the settlement from his own pockets.

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There are specific requirements for a green card to be revoked.

one of which must at least be:

“pro-terrorist or anti-American activity.”

No way that those are not revocable activities.

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There is zero dishonesty, except from you.

Powerful retort!

So in your mind these soon to be deported “students” are actually:

anti-terrorist, pro Israel and pro-American?

What an extremely silly binary perspective. Are you telling me that people who protest for Palestine are by default all antiamerican terrorist antisemites?? Come on. That would be like saying that people who support Trump are all incel nazis. When things are clearly more nuanced: there are also some married nazis!

And besides, freedom of speech is freedom of speech. Content of the speech shouldn't matter.

just a total misunderstanding of what they are supporting?

It's not a misunderstanding when it's done on purpose. Just dishonesty.

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Green Card holders are not guests. They are a legal permanent resident who has built a life in the US, paid taxes, and followed the law.

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