Democrats are very contradictory to the arrest of the Trump administration of the Palestinian graduate student at Colombia University, who face the deportation for their role in opposition to the campus on the Israel-Hamas War.
The Senate and House Democrats have condemned Mahmood Khalil’s arrest as a violation of his first reforms of protest – but he has angry with his criticism to avoid supporting campus opposition that the Jewish students were showing the harassment and attack at that time.
They also care to condemn Hamas, who OCT Kato. Israel was attacked on 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and abducting 250, and asking for Israeli response, resulting in thousands of people died in Gaza, including many citizens.
The minority leader, “Mahmud Khalil has captured Mahmood Khalil and I hate many opinions and policies, and my criticism of antisematic actions in Colombia is known loudly,” a minority leader Mourning Under A post to X on Tuesday.
But the Democrat of New York challenged the Trump administration, who called Khalil a Hamas supporter, justifying his arrest by immigration agents outside his New York apartment on the weekend.
“If the administration cannot prove that it has violated a criminal law to manipulate this serious action and is doing it for the views expressed, then it is wrong, they are all in violation of the first reform defense that we all enjoy and should abandon their unpaid action.”
Khalil is Syria’s Palestinian who on a student visa Entered and obtained a legal permanent residence, commonly referred to as a green card. His wife, an American citizen, is eight -month -old pregnant, his lawyers said in court papers.
President Donald Trump, who has said that he wants to break anti -opposition on the Callge Led Campus, celebrated the arrest in a social media post and said that he was “the first of the coming people.”
The Federal Judge on Monday stopped the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Khalil, and set a hearing on the case on Wednesday.
Loser statement A similar echo Home Minority Leader Hacem Jeffrees Published on Monday.
“His actions were incompatible with Columbia University policy and created an unacceptable adverse educational environment for Jewish students and others, there is a serious discipline process that could handle the matter,” Jeffreis wrote. “Absent evidence of crime, such as providing physical assistance for the terrorist organization, the actions undertaken by the Trump administration are wildly inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States.”
Other leading Democrats are doing the same wrestling with arrest. Ray. Adam Smith Washington Shington State said that he had an Oct. There are concerns over some of the campuses that broke out across the country after the attack. But he noticed In the social media post He “Khalil did not commit any crime” and “should not stop for expressing his political opinions.”
Demanding the release of Khalil while supporting the pro -Palestinian movement, a small number of democratic representatives have taken a less sensitive view. In a letter sent on Tuesday Homeland Secretary Secretary Cristy Noim to Secretary.
“We should be extremely clear: this is an attempt to criminal political opposition and there is a direct attack on the freedom of everyone’s speech in this country,” the letter said, whose signatures include Palestinian-American representatives. Rashida Tlaib Michigan. “Khalil’s arrest is the purpose of silence the Palestinian unity movement in this country, the act of anti -Palestinian racism.”
Other members of the Democratic House include Wisconsin Rep to sign the letter. MarkNew York Rap. Nydia VelezquausMinnesota rap. Ilhan Omar And Texas Rip. Jasmine crooked.
The first Palestinian American woman Tlyab to serve in the Congress was censored in November 2023 for her remarks on the Israel-Hamas War. In 2023, Omar was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which had previously condemned the Israeli government.
Correction: Repeat Sanskrit. Ilhan Omar’s last name was wrong.
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