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When you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest,
Rubio claimed
I don't agree with his point of view, but you know what? If you're an honest person, you have to defend him if you believe in free speech, because that's what free speech means,
Maher said of Khalil
When you come to the United States as a visitor, which is what a visa is – which is how this individual entered this country, on a visitor’s visa – as a visitor, we can deny you that visa,
Rubio saidWe talked about JD Vance's speech in Europe here a couple of weeks ago. We got on them about what they there are big issues there and in this country… but it's not like this administration really has a leg to stand on. They don't care about it either,
Maher told the panelI don't think they have anything on this guy, other than he's saying things that I can't believe kids believe now. I did not see this coming, this bizarre alliance of jihadism and wokeism. You know, ‘[Intifada] is the only solution!’ Really? [Intifada] is the only solution globally? That's where this guy is. I think it's horrible. He hates this country. He hates Western civilization. And I defend to his death the right to say it,
he addedWe’re gonna do more. In fact, every day now we’re approving visa revocations ― and if that visa led to a green card, the green card process as well,
Rubio said, not answering the question
Can you substantiate any form of material support for terrorism, specifically to Hamas, from this Columbia student?”
asked host Margaret BrennanNegotiating on behalf of people that took over a campus, that vandalized buildings? Negotiation over what
the secretary told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on SundayIf you are in this country to promote Hamas, to promote terrorist organizations, to participate in vandalism, to participate in acts of rebellion and riots on campus, we never would have let you in if we’d known that,
he saidIf you tell us when you apply for a visa, ‘I’m coming to the U.S. to participate in pro-Hamas events,’ that runs counter to the foreign policy interest of the United States … If you had told us you were going to do that, we never would have given you the visa, ... Face the Nation
Rubio said on CBS’
The issue, ... is whether an alien who is in this country legally can, merely because he is here, have his liberty restrained and be forcibly removed to a specific country in the unfettered discretion of the Secretary of State and without any meaningful opportunity to be heard. The answer is a ringing ‘no.’
she wrote,
Whatever the text of the statute says, it’s subject to the first amendment. And the theory of the case that they’re advancing here is astonishingly broad,
she added
This is not about free speech. This is about people that don’t have a right to be in the United States to begin with,
Rubio told reporters on WednesdayThey’re trying to read foreign policy and national security and national interests all very broadly. And this seems sort of on the piece with that, trying to now create essentially foreign policy authority to deporting green card holders,
said Ahilan Arulanantham, a co-director of the center for immigration law and policy at the University of California, Los Angeles
The primary issue in the case, I think, that is going to be litigated is whether this is unconstitutional first amendment retaliation,
said Ramya Krishnan, a lawyer at the Knight First Amendment Institute at ColumbiaRather than the statute setting the terms of deportability in advance, it would license the Secretary of State to turn nearly any activity into a basis for deportability after the fact,
they wroteIf the government has an objective to promote fossil fuel use across the globe, for example, then the Secretary of State could deem climate science advocates – or even noncitizens who own green technology firms – deportable on the ground that their residency ‘undermines the policy objective’ of promoting fossil fuels,
Cox and Arulanantham wrote in a post on Just SecurityYou pay all this money to these high-priced schools that are supposed to be of great esteem, and you can’t even go to class. You’re afraid to go to class because these lunatics are running around with covers on their face, screaming terrifying things,
Rubio saidNeither Secretary Rubio nor any other government official has alleged that Mr Khalil has committed any crime or, indeed, broken any law whatsoever,
they wroteWhen you are on campuses – I hear ‘speech’, ‘freedom of speech,’ ‘freedom of speech’ – can you stand at a movie theater and yell ‘fire’? Can you slander? Free speech has limitations,
he said