‘Will Not Stand’: Karoline Leavitt Says Arrest Of Pro-Hamas Protest Leader ‘First Of Many To Come’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday evening on Fox News that the arrest of the Syrian-born leader of a violent pro-Hamas protest is the “first of many to come.”

Syrian-born 30-year-old Mahmoud Khalil was detained by officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Saturday evening following his involvement in a student encampment at Columbia University last year, according to the Associated Press. With his green card revoked, Khalil has been accused of “activities aligned with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”

On “Hannity,” the Fox host asked Leavitt why Khalil would believe he has “a right to stay in the country” if he’s supporting a terrorist organization like Hamas.

“Everything you just said is true, Sean, and, unfortunately, it appears the liberals in the legacy media think that if you are a foreign national, you can behave in any manner that you want,” Leavitt said. “You can protest and push Hamas propaganda. You can side with a foreign terrorist organization that has killed American citizens, that has murdered innocent babies, men, women, and children across the globe. Under this administration, that type of activity, siding with radical Islamic terrorists, will not stand.”

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“The Trump administration, at the direction of President Trump’s executive order, has a zero-tolerance policy for foreign nationals who are given the privilege of getting a visa and going to some of our nation’s finest universities and colleges, studying at those institutions, and then siding with these radical terrorist organizations,” Leavitt said.

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