He may not be the flashiest member of President Trump’s new Cabinet, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio is likely to prove to be one of the most consequential figures of Trump 2.0. This was always going to be the case due to the fact the Biden administration handed Trump some serious hot garbage on the foreign affairs front, but Rubio’s role has come into sharp focus with the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations and, now, the case of raging antisemite “college student” Mahmoud Khalil.
Rubio always brings a calm demeanor and head full of facts, something that is much-needed as Democrats and their leftist foot soldiers wail and gnash their teeth over a pro-Hamas thug like Khalil getting his comeuppance. Let’s rewind a bit.
Columbia University has been the epicenter of the antisemitic ragefests that have taken over college campuses in the aftermath of October 7, with masked degenerates taking over school buildings while singing ditties about wiping out the Jews. Fun stuff. Classes at the very expensive Columbia were disrupted, Jewish students felt threatened, with good reason, and feeble school administrators allowed it all to play out because, let’s face it, they probably support the anti-Jew sentiment.
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Well, all the fun came to a screeching halt earlier this week when one of Columbia’s chief pro-Hamas agitators, the afore-mentioned Mahmoud Khalil, a citizen of Algeria, got a friendly visit from his local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. To his credit, Khalil didn’t always hide behind a keffiyeh and proudly put his face front and center at the campus “protests,” so he made it easy for officials to identify and detain him. In short, he FAed and FOed.
And the White House had some fun with it.
Right on cue, Khalil’s detainment and likely deportation back to Algeria brought out the histrionics from Democrats and their lefty-loon base. How dare the Trump administration detain one of their own? Since the left is always ready to agitate, they merely removed their antisemitic slurs from their protest signs and replaced them with their boilerplate, anti-Trump sentiments. Remember, these are the people who can’t summon the will to applaud for a young cancer patient, but they’ve got all the energy in the world to advocate for a terrorist sympathizer who, as it turns out, has no right to be in the United States.
And this is something Secretary of State Rubio laid out beautifully on Wednesday, explaining to the left like they’re five years old that Mr. Khalil has more than earned his one-way ticket home.
When you come to the U.S. as a visitor — which is what a visa is, which is how this individual entered this country, on a visitor’s visa — you are here as a VISITOR. We can deny you that visa. If you tell us when you apply, “Hi, I’m trying to get into the United States on a student visa – ‘I am a big supporter of Hamas,’ a murderous, barbaric group that kidnaps children, that rapes teenage girls, that takes hostages, that allows them to die in captivity, that returns more bodies than live hostages – if you tell us that you are in favor of a group like this, and you tell us when you apply for your visa, “And by the way, I intend to come to your country as a student and rile up all kinds of anti-Jewish student, antisemitic activities, I intend to shut down your university.
If you told us these things when you applied for a visa, we would deny your visa. I hope we would.
And if you actually end up doing that, once you’re in this country on such a visa, we will revoke it. And if you have a green card–not citizenship–as a result of that visa, while you’re here and those activities? We’re gonna kick you out. It’s as simple as that. This is not about free speech. This is about people who don’t have any right to be in the United States.
Rubio is crystal-clear in his messaging here: the left can melt down all it wants over this guy, but the days of coddling extremists, especially those making life hell on U.S. college campuses, are over. This is just the beginning of the detaining and deporting, and Democrats bemoan it merely because these bad actors make up their base and their base is about to shrink even more.
