At the end of January, President Trump signed an executive order regarding combating anti-Semitism on college campuses, which expanded on a previous order that he signed in 2019. Columbia University protesters should have been paying attention.

The new executive order specifically notes the explosion of anti-Semitism on campuses since October 7, 2023, and the fact sheet served notice to those privileged brats who were LARPing as Hamas groupies.

Aggressively enforce the law, protect public order, and prosecute anti-Semitic crimes: “I will issue clear orders to my Attorney General to aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews.”

Deport Hamas Sympathizers and Revoke Student Visas: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”

Well, as we are all aware from the news, Columbia and Barnard students (among others) completely ignored the administration’s warning, and there have been weekly protests happening on Wednesday nights lately. Until Columbia and Barnard start enforcing actual consequences, this insanity will continue.

The Trump administration, on the other hand, is more than happy to start handing out the consequences. In the most predictable FAFO ever, the administration canceled $400 million in grants to Columbia. And now, a Columbia graduate – who was still living on the university’s largesse, despite graduating – has been arrested by ICE, and is likely headed for deportation once his green card is revoked.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who completed his graduate studies at Ivy League Columbia in December, also potentially faces having his visa revoked and his green card canceled following President Trump’s crackdown on unrest at colleges, attorney Amy Greer said Sunday.

He was inside his university-owned apartment a few blocks from campus Saturday night when ICE agents entered the residence and took him into custody, Greer said.

Despite graduating months ago, Khalil, who earned his undergraduate degree in Beirut, still lived in school-provided housing due to a policy allowing students to remain on campus after graduating, a source told The Post.

He has remained active in recent disruptive protests, including last week’s takeover of the Milstein Library at Barnard College. Videos and photographs posted on X depict him holding a bullhorn near the library entrance and engaged in discussion with school administrators.

And Khalil was a big part of the Columbia protests last spring.

Khalil was one of the CUAD student leaders who organized the encampments. He led negotiations with the school as they unfolded, demanding divestment from Israel. Khalil pledged further unrest in the buildup to the fall semester, telling the Hill he would continue to push Columbia to divest from Israel by “any available means necessary.” Video footage placed him at a more recent illegal protest at Barnard College that took place on Wednesday.

“And we’ve been working all this summer on our plans, on what’s next to pressure Columbia to listen to the students and to decide to be on the right side of history,” Khalil said in August. “We’re considering a wide range of actions throughout the semester, encampments and protests and all of that. But for us, encampment is now our new base.”

Khalil has openly discussed his visa status and his upbringing in Syria, including in an interview with Qatar-funded network Al Jazeera.

Apparently, Khalil was on a F-1 student visa, so he “chose” to be an organizer and a spokesperson, but not actually live at the encampment at Columbia. At one point, he told Al Jazeera that he had been suspended, but that Columbia University reinstated him just days later, along with an apology from former university president Minouche Shafik‘s office. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Khalil was granted a green card after his graduation in December, which was under the Biden administration – and his lawyer now says both his student visa and his green card are being revoked.

As one can imagine, his fellow LARPers are screaming about his arrest, claiming that he was “abducted by DHS.” Except his location is not exactly a secret, for starters.

good lord. nobody is being “disappeared.” here he is. https://t.co/YvCo9u0gn1 pic.twitter.com/7A1pTPQEYg

— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) March 10, 2025

There are also claims that he was “dragged away” from his pregnant wife, and his lawyer claims she wasn’t able to see him and that Khalil has been moved. And despite the upset from Democrats who are beginning to hear of the case, the bottom line remains that Khalil is not a citizen, and has no inherent right to live in the United States as a legal noncitizen. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio made that perfectly clear on X Sunday evening.

We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported https://t.co/oKba2Mmi3C

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 9, 2025

The real question now becomes, with his fancy new graduate degree from Columbia, can Khalil get his old job back?

According to his LinkedIn, Khalil briefly served as a political affairs officer with UNRWA – a UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees – which was stripped of tens of millions in federal funding after an explosive report that some of its members took part in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack against Israel in which 1,200 people were killed.

After receiving his undergraduate degree in Beirut, Khalil – born in Syria in 1995 – enrolled at Columbia, where he earned his graduate degree at the School of International and Public Affairs in December and was a driving force behind many of the anti-Israel protests, building takeovers and encampments that have plagued the school for more than a year.

With a graduate degree and new protesting credentials, I’m sure the UN will hire him back in a heartbeat – if they can scrounge up the money. The Associated Press claims that Khalil’s wife is an American citizen, so she is welcome to go with him if she chooses. The Supreme Court just ruled last summer on noncitizen spouses having no right to live within the United States, so being married to a citizen will not prevent him from having his legal documentation revoked by the Trump administration, or allow him to stay in the country.

Mahmoud Khalil had learned to use the American system quite well for himself. He got a graduate degree from an Ivy League school, was still living on the university’s dime (probably because of married housing or something) and enjoying all the freedoms of the United States, married an American, gotten legal residency, and all while agitating for Hamas. Who paid for his tuition? Why did Columbia accept him in the first place? What did he plan to do with that degree in “International and Public Affairs”? How did he think he was going to support a wife and child with that degree?

We have enough homegrown spoiled brats to deal with on college campuses without needing to keep imported ones. Take note, everyone – the Trump administration means what it says. You support Hamas and protest on their behalf at your own risk if you are not a citizen of the United States.

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