Reports that the Trump administration began targeting some of the permanent legal population, known as the “Green Card”, with a new deportation Legal questions About the rights of the legal population in the United States for citizens.
“The idea that the United States Conference is not entitled to issue immigration laws that regulate behavior, including foreigners' speech … close to trivial,” said William Jacobson, a law professor at Cornell University and founder of the Fox News Protection Project.
Comments come as president Donald Trump According to what was reported, the deportation efforts have spread to many green cards holders, who are permanent legal residents in the United States, but not American citizens. Green card holders have been targeted for reasons that include alleged support for terrorist organizations and anti -United States feelings, which raised questions about the constitutional rights of this group of legal immigrants.
While holders of green cards have protected rights under the constitution, Jacobson said they are also subject to the American immigration law, a group of rules that American citizens do not face.
The video shows the arrest of Colombia's anti -Israeli leader Mahmoud Khalil
The case of Mahmoud Khalil launched the demonstrators who owe President Donald Trump to deport the anti -Israel instigators in the United States in visas. (Getty Images)
Jacobson said: “The focus is on freedom of expression rights … “The second part of the equation is that for non -citizens, they are also subject to immigration laws that do not apply to citizens. This is to the extent that the government is able to show the reasons under immigration laws to remove a foreign, whether here on a visa or a green card, the government is doing its best to enforce these laws.”
In the center of this discussion, there is the case of former Colombia University student Mahmoud Khalil, the activist who was arrested by the federal immigration authorities this month and faces accusations Support of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Khalil, the owner of the 30 -year -old green card, is married to an American citizen, who also faces accusations that he was not sincere about the previous employment in the Middle East at his construction request.
Jacobson said there are many ways that the government can take to remove Khalil from the country for violations American immigration law, Although he will be granted due to the due legal procedures through the Immigration Law system.
“I think there are many reasons for removing it, or at least possible reasons for removing it, if they are able to provide a guide,” said Jacobson.
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Jacobson said these migration rules apply to all those who hold green and green cards, and in some cases they can still apply for those who have become homogeneous American citizens.
He referred to the case of Rasmea Odeh, a former American citizen who has been convicted by the Israeli military courts for his involvement in the supermarket bombing in Jerusalem in 1969.
She later immigrated to the United States in 1990 and became an American citizen, but in 2014 she was convicted of defrauding immigration to hide her previous conviction and canceled her American nationality.
Jacobson said: “Even if you come here, and you have been naturalized as a citizen, but you lied to your requests, this is something to strip your nationality and deport.”
Mahmoud Khalil claimed a major role in protests against Israel at Columbia University. (Ted Shafri/File)
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He also indicated that the immigration laws were issued By Congress It is implemented by the president, a unique system of migrants to the United States. In the end, Jacobson said, such laws exist for a good reason.
“The idea that once a person is accepted in the country, they can come here, defend the destruction of our country, and engage in behavior that deprives others of their constitutional rights, and participates in an organization dedicated to the armed struggle and dedicated it to the destruction of Western civilization, and (that) we cannot do about it, I think it is just the indicative plan.”
