CNN’s lone conservative panel member smacks down leftists who are boohooing about the arrest by ICE of a Muslim Hamas-supporting former Columbia University student

Scott Jennings made an entire CNN panel look more stupid than usual over their desire to protect an anti-America, Jew-hating, pro-Islamic terrorist campus agitator, Mahmoud Khalil, from legally being deported from the United States.

Twitchy The panel seems to agree with ‘Jihad Squad’ congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, who thinks: “Deporting legal residents solely for expressing their political opinions is a violation of free speech rights. Who’s next? Citizens?”

Apparently, the congresswoman and the CNN panel are ignorant of the laws regarding green card holders::

Green card holders are resident aliens, not citizens. Under 8 USC 1227, they are deportable for endorsing terrorist activity, persuading others to endorse terrorist activity, or support for a terrorist organization. The US government recognizes Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization.

Many of the illegal acts committed at Columbia & Barnard by Mahmoud Khalil meet the definition of a terrorist activity. Injuring school staff, vandalism, barricading inside buildings, and preventing students from attending classes are NOT examples of Free Speech. They have no Constitutional protections.

Mahmoud Khalil is also deportable for another reason: Khalil is a spokesman for an organization that supports armed resistance by Hamas.  

That makes him deportable pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(4)(B).That provision in the statute allows the deportation of even lawful permanent residents who are “representative[s]” of a “political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity.” 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)(i)(IV)(aa)-(bb); see also id. at (B)(v) (“representative” defined as including “an officer, official, or spokesman of an organization.”) Columbia University Apartheid Divestment (“CUAD”) supports armed resistance by Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization. 

Mahmoud Khalil’s group wants to eradicate Western Civilization & foment unrest in the United States. President Trump & @SecRubio are well within their legal rights to deport this radical. We are either going to stand up or become Europe. I’m 100% behind the President. pic.twitter.com/0shUR407pr

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 11, 2025