Face Of Chaotic Antisemitic Columbia Protests Gets Deportation Destination
The Trump administration indicated that it has picked a country to send one of the most well-known foreign student agitators accused of sympathizing with Hamas. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to deport…
The Trump administration indicated that it has picked a country to send one of the most well-known foreign student agitators accused of sympathizing with Hamas.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to deport Mahmoud Kahlil to Algeria, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said during a Wednesday interview with NewsNation. Khalil, who established himself as the face of the pro-Palestinian student protests that rocked Columbia University in 2024, is closer to being re-detained by federal Immigration authorities following an appeals court ruling earlier in January.
“It looks like he’ll go to Algeria,” McLaughlin said during the interview, confirming that the administration is preparing to take Khalil back into custody. “That’s what the thought is right now.”
“It’s a reminder for those who are in this country on a visa or on a green card. You are a guest in this country — act like it,” McLaughlin said. “It is a privilege, not a right, to be in this country to live or to study, and if you are pushing propaganda that relishes the killing of Americans or promotes terrorists — door’s that way.”
Tricia McLauglin. NewsNation interview. YouTube screengrab.
Major American college campuses in 2024 became engulfed with leftist student protesters sympathetic to the Palestinian cause during the Israel-Hamas war. Largely at the center of these student demonstrations was Columbia University in New York City, which at one point was rocked with protests so violent that university employees