( NewsNation ) — The potential deportation of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil has alarmed free-speech advocates, including New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani.
He was recently seen on social media videos shouting angrily at “border czar” Tom Homan in Albany, demanding to know if the immigration enforcer believes in the First Amendment.
“He was walking the halls, with a smirk on his face, without any answer for the unjustifiable, which is the detention of a permanent, legal resident of this country, a fellow New Yorker, without any actual charge,” Mamdani, a Democratic state legislator, told “NewsNation Prime” on Sunday.
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Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Khalil on March 8. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the green card holder is no longer welcome in the U.S. because of Khalil’s role in disruptive pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia, which some have seen as antisemitic and supportive of the terrorist organization Hamas…