Professor William Jacobson is the proprietor and writer of the Authorized Rebellion weblog. He’s additionally a professor at Cornell Legislation Faculty.
He lately spoke to speak host Tony Katz about Mahmoud Khalil, the anti-Israel agitator at Columbia University who was arrested and is now set for deportation.
The left has tried in useless to border this as a free speech challenge, however as Jacobson factors out, it’s really not about free speech.
Partial transcript by way of Legal Insurrection:
WILLIAM JACOBSON: Effectively, I believe it’s important to distinguish, immigration is a really totally different scenario than somebody who’s a US citizen. The federal government can’t deport, to my information, a US citizen. They will both prosecute you for a criminal offense or they’ve to go away you alone just about. However once you’re right here on an immigration, whether or not it’s a visa or a inexperienced card, you’re taking part in by a distinct algorithm. You haven’t any proper to be right here until you adjust to the principles, not like US residents. And so it’s a really totally different scenario, and I believe the federal government does have a key position there. It does have an curiosity and a proper to maintain individuals out who give help for terrorism. It’s proper within the statute … whether or not this individual did or not is one thing they’ll should show, whether or not they interact in prison exercise whereas right here, is one thing they’re going to should show.
But when they will show all of these issues, there’s no purpose why we as a rustic must let in individuals who come right here for the very function of not solely advocating the overthrow of the US authorities, not solely advocating the destruction of our society, however partaking in organizing violent conduct, harassing conduct.
Bear in mind this man disadvantaged tons of, if not 1000’s, of Columbia college students of their rights. He disadvantaged them of their proper to training. He disadvantaged them of their proper to speech by means of these loopy, violent, intimidating marches that they did, and checkpoints and never permitting college students to get to class.
This isn’t a man who has revered anyone else’s rights, but we as a rustic will respect his rights to the extent he has them.
This isn’t a free speech challenge. When you had been going to show, as they declare, that he’s solely being prosecuted as a result of he’s quote unquote pro-Palestinian, then you would need to discover related conduct by a pro-Israel pupil, which isn’t prosecuted. The issue with these free speech arguments by the anti-Israel crowd is they’re the one ones taking up buildings. They’re the one ones trashing buildings. They’re the one ones intimidating workers.
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It’s really humorous to listen to individuals on the left instantly pretending to care about free speech on school campuses. Left wing college students will virtually burn a campus down if Ann Coulter is invited to talk.
