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ABC News host Sunny Hostin argued on “The View” that anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil should have the same rights and protections as an American citizen, referring to him as a “political prisoner” and suggesting that President Donald Trump was trying to have him “disappeared.”

Hostin addressed the issue during Monday’s broadcast of the midday talk show, where she claimed that Khalil’s status as a Green Card-holder afforded him
the same rights any citizen would have and complained that the Trump administration — and the U.S. State Department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio — was overstepping in efforts to strip him of his immigration status
and deport him.

WATCH:

The View's Sunny Hostin defends Hamas sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil,
calls him a "political prisoner."

REMINDER: Khalil is behind the violent Columbia University Apartheid
Divest riots in New York City. pic.twitter.com/qCJzdO3V6Z

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 24, 2025

“I love how you started this, Whoopi [Goldberg], because you started it with the law, with Tom Homan saying Americans, once you are here, especially if
you have a Green Card, you are a permanent legal resident of the United States,” Hostin began. “Which means that you have the constitutional protections that every American citizen has — and that includes free speech, and it certainly includes due process from being disappeared.”

“And so I want to point out that on March 8th, a legal permanent resident who has a Green Card, his name’s Mahmoud Khalil, was taken from Columbia
University housing,” Hostin continued. “His pregnant wife is due next month. Plain-clothed men in New York grabbed him into an unmarked car, then moved
him to Jersey, which is something that is done in authoritarian governments, and moved him to Louisiana, which is one of the worst detention centers that
we know of in this country.”

“He has said — there’s a letter that everyone I hope reads — calls himself a political prisoner. I believe that he is,” she said. “He wrote on March 18th, 2025, and what is so shocking to me is that this could happen to someone who
is a permanent legal resident with a Green Card, with an American wife about
to have an American child being disappeared because of — because he spoke
out. Because he has his freedom of speech and because he basically spoke out and gave an opinion that now the State Department is saying is against our foreign policy.”

Hostin left out the reason Secretary Rubio had determined Khalil’s “opinion” ran counter to U.S. foreign policy — the fact that Khalil was affiliated with
a group that rallied behind the mission of dismantling the whole of western civilization and had actively fomented anti-Israel protests that resulted in vandalism, violence, and threats against Jewish students and professors.

The ABC personality also left out the most recent updates on Khalil — specifically, the fact that when Khalil applied to change his immigration status and obtain his Green Card, he allegedly left out relevant information regarding his affiliation with several groups that would most likely have raised red flags.

Among those groups was the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, known as UNRWA, which had members who participated alongside Hamas terrorists in the atrocities that took place on October 7, 2023. According to the New
York Post, Khalil worked with UNRWA as a political affairs officer as
recently as 2023. Khalil was also reportedly working for the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon — another association allegedly left
off his application — at the time he applied to change his immigration
status. Additionally, the State Department has alleged Khalil never revealed ties to the anti-Israel group that disrupted things at Columbia University
over the last year: Columbia University Apartheid Divest.

Rubio laid out the State Department’s case shortly after Khalil was taken
into custody, saying that if Khalil had revealed his plans to engage in such activities on his visa application, it would have been denied — and by that logic, Rubio declared that it could be revoked for the same reason.

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On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:15:42 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:

Hostin addressed the issue during Monday’s broadcast of the midday talk show, >where she claimed that Khalil’s status as a Green Card-holder afforded him >the same rights any citizen would have and complained that the Trump >administration — and the U.S. State Department under Secretary of State Marco >Rubio — was overstepping in efforts to strip him of his immigration status >and deport him.

The hell it does - my mother once had a US green card (and my father
later had the Canadian equivalent) and they knew the score.

About the only time I heard this actually being enforced was in 2015
when Canada deported Mikhail Lennikov who was a former KGB translator
who had taken refuge in a church for 5 years to avoid apprehension.
(There's no "sanctuary" status for churches in Canadian law but the
RCMP never raided the church)

Never did find out whether his wife and kids also left Canada as there
was to my knowledge no deportation order for them.

The deportation order was under the clause in the Canadian Immigration
act which disallows entry of alumni of "criminal organizations" such
as the KGB, in past times the SS (that's what Ernst Zundel was
deported to Germany under as he was a Waffen SS man in 1943-45 which
makes me wonder what the Ukrainian former Waffen SS man for whom
Justin Trudeau led a standing ovation in the House of Commons - in the
presence of Zelensky - was doing in Canada)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvsAUKhyjwY

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On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:15:42 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:

“I love how you started this, Whoopi [Goldberg], because you started it with >the law, with Tom Homan saying Americans, once you are here, especially if >you have a Green Card, you are a permanent legal resident of the United >States,” Hostin began. “Which means that you have the constitutional >protections that every American citizen has — and that includes free speech, >and it certainly includes due process from being disappeared.”

"Permanent" isn't strictly permanent - if you return to your home
country other than as a visitor a green card is cancelled. My mother
had first a student visa then on graduation a green card which was
revoked when she relocated to Canada again (not that Canadians or
Americans have ever had problems crossing the border)

Though I was once in a travel group that was delayed for about an hour
since one guy (who was a Brit) failed to mention the fact when
crossing the border and they then checked ID on every single person in
the tour group)

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