On March 8, Ice arrested Palestinian activist and recent Colombian alumnus Mahmoud Khalil. Halil was the leader of Colombian pro-Palestinian protests last spring.
He was destined to be deported, but yesterday US District Judge Jesse Furman issued an order that blocked his deportation. Halil is currently being held in a Louisiana ice facility awaiting his fate.
The incident sparked widespread controversy. Of course, the left is furious. It's something that was given. But so are the rights aspects, such as Candice Owens and Glenn Greenwald.
Liz Wheeler from “The Liz Wheeler Show” breaks it all down and explains why Khalil's deportation is absolutely necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgeqt7dea3q
If we want to stop the “popular immigration crisis that is hurting our country,” she says, “it means not only securing our borders, but also protecting our culture from people who hate America.”
“On October 7, 2023, Hamas brutally attacked, invaded, raped, murdered, slaughtered Israelis and Jews… there were protests in support of what Hamas did not only in the Middle East but also in the United States.”
One of these protests occurred at Columbia University, where protesters “occupied” the “occupied buildings” for several days, violating university rules, until NYC police had to finally kick them out.
Halil reportedly was “a major negotiator between protesters and campus administrators.”
He “clears the demands these students had on the administration to the media, before they agreed to end the occupation of the building,” Liz says.
She then plays a video clip of Khalil telling CNN that students will continue to violate university rules by occupying the Hamilton building until the university agrees to the BDS movement.
“Are you planning on listening to the university and leaving the camp here?” the reporter asked.
“Of course not. The university is someone who should listen to us. … Our demands are clear. Our demands are about the occupation of Israel, the sale from companies that benefit and contribute to our people's genocide,” Halil told reporters “before they told them they would go 'go'. [they needed] Put pressure on the university. ”
“It's dangerous… because it hints that he's willing to escalate to the point of violence,” Liz says.
The group Liz refers to is called the Columbia United Apartheid Dibust.
“The group is seeking complete eradication of the West,” Liz explains, calling the organization “to be extremely extreme.”
Cuad's X account has the following statement: “In the face of violence from the planet's most lethal military oppressors, violence is the only way you have exhausted all peaceful solutions.”
Additionally, in a subsequent deleted Instagram post, the organization stated: We are in full solidarity with all movements for liberation in the South of the world. Our intifadas are internationalists. We fight for anything other than liberation of all. As fascism, which is seeped into American consciousness, becomes more clear and rebuttal, we seek community and leadership from extremists in the global southern region who were at the forefront in the fight against tyranny and domination that embraced the imperialist world order. ”
So Mahmoud “is not just a protester against the so-called war in Gaza. He is currently anti-West, meaning that he is anti-American,” she continues.
If his membership and behaviorism in CUAD are not a direct link to terrorism… what is it then?” she asks.
To hear more about Liz's discussion, check out the episode above.
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