Deporting Anti-American Foreigners Isn’t About Speech Rights. They Don’t Have The ‘Right’ To Be Here At All

The Trump administration is cracking down on radical, anti-American foreigners by revoking their visas. The left claims such efforts are a violation of free speech rights. But no foreigner has the “right” to be in America, let alone come here and espouse radical anti-American and anti-West values.

Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by immigration officers near Tufts Campus on Tuesday and later had her student visa revoked. Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said federal investigations found Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Hamas is a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that visas are meant for students to “study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses. And if we’ve given you a visa and then you decide to do that, we’re going to take it away.”

Similarly, Syrian-born Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was detained after the DHS said he “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” As reported by the New York Post earlier this month, “Khalil and Columbia United Apartheid Divest … were among those taking part in the campus takeover [of Columbia University] at the start of the school year.” The coalition, led by Khalil, sought the “total eradication of Western civilization,” according to the outlet.

The Trump administration also detained Badar Khan Suri, whose wife is reportedly the daughter of a senior adviser to Hamas leadership. Suri’s wife has posted Hamas propaganda, including a post declaring “America is the plague,” according to the National Review. (Read more from “Deporting Anti-American Foreigners Isn’t About Speech Rights. They Don’t Have The ‘Right’ To Be Here At All” HERE)

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