'Very Dark Stuff': Judge Rules Palestine Activist Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported

[CousinIT]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/mahmoud-khalil-deportable?

"If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech, this can happen to anyone," one of his lawyers warned.

A U.S. immigration judge in Louisiana on Friday ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident and former Columbia University graduate student arrested last month after protesting Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, can be deported, a decision that came despite the Trump administration admitting the imminently expecting father committed no crime and was being targeted solely for constitutionally protected speech.

Judge Jamee Comans said that she lacked the legal authority to question the determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Khalil was deportable.

Khalil now has until April 23 to apply for relief, or face deportation to Syria—where he was born in 1995 in a refugee camp for Palestinians—or Algeria, where he has citizenship.

"I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness," Khalil told Comans after she announced her decision. "Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process."

[johnnyfins]

1. Protestors beware

All bets are off now.

[Initech]

2. I truly despise this administration.

[Wonder Why]

3. I can hope they deport the judge from his job when donnie is gone.

[DallasNE]

4. Weird Ruling, To Say The Least

The Judge ruled as though Rubio was some kind of King that could not be challenged, so the merits of the case were not considered. Not only were the 1st Amendment rights on speech and religion not considered, neither was the right to face your accuser allowed. I presume this ruling will be appealed.

[dalton99a]

5. Jamee E. Comans

Jamee E. Comans was appointed as an Assistant Chief Immigration Judge in January 2023. Judge Comans earned a Bachelor of Science in 2005 from St. Leo University and a Juris Doctorate in 2008 from Mississippi College School of Law. From 2021 to 2022, she served as an Immigration Judge at the LaSalle Immigration Court. From 2018 to 2021, she served as Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in Jena and Oakdale, Louisiana. From 2012 to 2018, she served as an Assistant Chief Counsel, OPLA, ICE, DHS, in Memphis. From 2009 to 2012, she was an Associate Attorney with the Law Offices of Matt Greenbaum LLP in New Orleans. From 2001 to 2022, she served in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Judge Comans is a member of the Mississippi Bar.

[underpants]

6. As bad as both are, this is a slow conniving operation like Garcia

Neither deserves any of this.
This is just mean and to be THAT.