Yeah, generally you’d expect going after activists on drummed up charges.
Is the goal provocation? Maybe they are really eager for widespread protests and need to lock up an innocent to make that happen?
Or do they really think they can legally arrest and deport green card holders based on speech?
Or maybe it’s just yet another case to slow down the SCOTUS?
All 3?
So he broke no laws, and still merits being a) arrested and b) instantly transferred to Louisiana so his wife and attorneys can’t meet with him? This is legitimately scary stuff.
That last line is kind of strange. This is from the NYT:
two people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio relied on a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 that gives him sweeping power to expel foreigners.
The provision says that any “alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable.”
The law is incredibly vague, probably typical of red scare 1952.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/politics/mahmoud-khalil-legal-resident-deportation.html
Also:
On Monday, Judge Furman, of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, scheduled a hearing for two days later after barring the Trump administration from deporting Mr. Khalil “to preserve the court’s jurisdiction.”
Leavitt: “Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khali. Under the immigration and nationality act, the secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the USA.”
So if you are a Canadian in the US, you’d better not publicly say that Canada shouldn’t become a US state.
THERE ARE FOUR QUESTIONS!
Revoke the visa?
He isn’t on a visa…
He doesn’t have a visa, and “reserving the right” doesn’t grant you it. It’ll be up to a judge, regardless what today’s executive loon claims.
The people that really do need to be worried are the international students on F-1 Visas.
They will have zero protections against this sort of behavior.
Just waiting until such Canadians get terrorist designation
Trump says he’ll label anyone protesting at a Tesla dealership as a domestic terrorist
they are sending the maple syrup, and antifa is using it to make bombs
And they are SOOOO disrespectful. Did they even say thank you once for teaching them baseball?
Actually baseball was being played in Canada before the USA. So much for America being first. And basketball was invented by a Canadian.
Baseball has much deeper roots in Canada than most people realize. Baseball was once so popular in Canada that there was even talk of making it our national sport. The story goes back far enough. The first game was played in Beachville, Ontario, about 40 km east of London, on 4 June 1838, with a ball of twisted yarn covered in calfskin and a club carved from cedar. In the audience was a battalion of Scottish volunteers on their way to mop up the remnants of the Upper Canada Rebellion. This baseball game took place seven years before the founding of the first American baseball team, New York’s Knickerbocker Base Ball Club.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadians-in-baseball-the-lost-tribe-feature
That was my reaction before I even got to your comment. So McCarthyesque.
Some interesting legal maneuvering: when Khalil’s lawyers filed the habeus petition in NY, he had already been temporarily moved to NJ. The argument is that the NY petition is invalid, and it’s no longer timely to file one in NJ. Seems the US attorney may have successfully played a game of hide the ball and will try this case in Louisiana in the 5th circuit.
Citibank has received requests from the FBI, the EPA administrator, the EPA AG, and the Treasury to freeze funds in a number of bank accounts. They are trying to claw back money paid under contract from legislation passed during the prior admin.
Here’s why the FBI is involved in asking to freeze bank accounts: Patel wants to criminally charge environmental groups that received government grants, as climate change is fraud
It would be amusing to chain a few of the folks deeming climate change to be fraud to some desks and force them to do analysis of recent decades of European and Canadian catastrophe losses.
Or maybe not, because it would probably become my job to oversee / review their work.
