A ruling against Mahmoud Khalil highlights Marco Rubio's broad power to deport people for their opinions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : " For many Jews (including me), engaging in anti-Israel protests immediately after the Hamas attack was inherently offensive, and even Khalil's avowed views will strike anyone looking for nuance as tendentious.
62% : He disavowed anti-Jewish sentiment, saying, "There is, of course, no place for antisemitism.
59% : " One might reasonably be skeptical of those self-serving statements, even though Khalil made them long before he was threatened with deportation.
56% : She says he "has never expressed support for Hamas" or "endorsed any form of extremism." Another friend, a Columbia student who says "Judaism has always been central to my identity," reports that Khalil attended "Shabbat dinners I hosted with my friends" and "always approached our traditions with kindness."
49% : Jamee E. Comans, an immigration judge in Louisiana, today ruled that the Trump administration had met the legal requirements for deporting former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident who was targeted because of his prominent role in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.
39% : In a brief supporting Khalil's challenge, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) argues that the deportation threat constitutes viewpoint-based discrimination, which is presumptively unconstitutional, and amounts to government retaliation for constitutionally protected speech.
34% : But as Trump sees it, the chilling effect of the law's indeterminate scope is a feature, not a bug.

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