The stock market these days is on a true roller coaster, with Elon Musk’s government efficiency (DOGE) continuing to disrupt its feathers, Iran’s march constantly approaching nuclear weapons, and Russia and Ukraine eat up to a ceasefire. However, this week’s national political conversations have, strangely, tended to focus on the uncertain fate of only non-citizen and former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil.
I’ll talk about misplaced priorities. Most American media consumers take great care of their pocketbooks and retirement accounts. They may also be concerned about stability on the world stage – a long-term peace agreement to end the bloodshed in modest China, a relatively mild Middle East and Eastern Europe.
In contrast, there is one thing that media consumers probably don’t care much about. It is whether Syrian and Algerian citizens, who were the faces of last year’s violent Prohama’s Columbia University campus riots, will be deported. Of course, you will never know that from the media’s constant focus on the saga of Halil. Isn’t it only 31% of Americans wondered last fall that Gallup said they were confident in “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of media? (Related: Josh Hammer: Demus still can’t understand why Americans don’t like them)
Either way, Halil is a very unsympathetic person on any metric. New York Times explained He is the “public face of protest against Israel” in Colombia. He was a spokesman for a group of ProHamas students called Columbia University Apartheid Dibust (CUAD). Cuad called the October 7 massacre of Israelis a “moral, military and political victory” and claimed it was fighting to the point of “the complete eradication of Western civilization.” Personally, Halil Dispersion The propaganda brochure is titled “Our Story – Operation Al Aksa Flood” and borrows the code name Hamas on October 7th.
More importantly, Halil is not a US citizen. He is a green card holder and a legal alien. And like a legal or illegal alien, he can only remain in our soil when sovereignty, which is the sovereignty, in the United States, “our people,” agrees to it. And when we remove consent, the aliens must go.
The power to exclude is a characteristic of the singular definition of the meaning of being sovereign. Emer de Vattel’s highly influential year 1758 paper“National Law” described this authority as complete. “Sovereignty may think that it is advantageous to the state, so it may prohibit the entrance to his territory from the entrance to his territory for foreigners, certain people, or for a particular purpose,” and, like the Supreme Court judge, Antonin Scalia pointed out in him. Opposition of 2001 Zadvydasv. Shaughnessyv, Judge Robert Jackson, in Davis. UnitedStates ex Rel. Mezei (1953): “The due process does not invest foreigners who have the right to enter the United States, nor does it award those who have recognized the right to oppose the will of the people.”
It’s very easy. Really: The aliens here are here, just because our people – citizens of this country – agreed to it from someone on a tourist visa to the green cardholder. When an alien violates the terms of entry, they must be removed. Additionally, the alien can be removed immediately if necessary. There is no specific level of “due process” that aliens qualify for. (Related: “It’s not a matter of freedom of speech”: immigration experts have bad news for liberals who oppose deporting foreigners)
It brings us back to Khalil – by supporting at least one (probably more than one) foreign terrorist organization designated by the US State Department, foreigners who violate his terms of residence create a common cause with organizations that are more commonly seeking “complete eradication of Western civilization.” The day when the United States loses its ability to deport non-citizens who support such toxic beliefs is the day that the United States will cease to be a sovereign nation.
And there’s the whole point there.
Khalil Saga is looking at the intersection of three horrifying anti-western ideologies of my identity with my new ID Books This Tuesday, “Israel and Civilization: The Destiny of the Jewish State and the Destiny of the West.” First, there is the angle of awakening. Halil and his likeness believe in the neo-Marxist “oppressor”/”oppressed” dichotomy, and his view as an “oppressor” in Israel is at the root of his aversive activity. Secondly, there is the Muslim angle. Halil supports Sunni Muslim costumes such as Hamas. Third, there is a global neoliberal angle. Those protesting Halil’s detention see little or no distinction between citizens and non-citizens, like John Lennon’s dystopian song, “Imagination.”
So the drama about Halil’s arrest and detention is not actually about Halil. It’s about the fate of the United States and the very west destiny where the United States is the basic cog.
Official X-account of Democrats on the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday Postedalongside the corresponding photos, “Free Mahmoud Khalil.” But if those Senate Democrats and countless other apologies from Halil are honest, they simply don’t want Halil to be “free” from President Donald Trump’s immigration and customs enforcement. Rather, they are trying to “free” him and us all from the bondage of Western civilization itself.
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