Mahmoud Khalil is still in a federal detention center in Louisiana. He has still not been charged with a crime; in fact, the government hasn’t even suggested he might have committed one. And now, Secretary of State Marco “99-0” Rubio has explicitly told the court that he can export anyone he feels like just for what thoughts are in their head.
In a two-page memo signed by Rubio and obtained by the Associated Press and posted online, the Secretary of State said that the Immigration and Nationality Act allows him to unilaterally deport “an alien” if their presence or activities could have potentially serious consequences to US foreign policy. Emphasis added: “Under [the INA], for cases in which the basis for this determination is the alien’s past, current or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful, the Secretary of State must personally determine that the alien’s presence or activities would compromise a compelling US foreign policy interest.”
If you believe the wrong thing, according to one small and malleable toadie of a man, you might be on a plane to a gulag. Khalil is in the US legally, with a green card; his deportable “crime,” apparently, is wanting a genocide to stop. Rubio went on to say that Khalil’s continued presence in the US would “undermine US policy to combat anti-semitism around the world and in the United States,” a preposterous claim with no basis in the real world.
In a Cabinet filled with incompetent, dangerous, braying sycophants, Rubio has worked quickly to establish his own mini-dictatorship at State. His gleeful canceling of hundreds of student visas, eager participation in disappearances and obviously illegal courtroom shenanigans, and more — it is this little weasel that, if the courts let him, get to decide which beliefs are allowed in the country in the future.
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