Thought crimes”: Rubio lays out government’s justification for deportations based on “beliefs

The Trump administration claims the right to deport individuals based on their beliefs or speech alone, as pressure is escalated to launch the activist Mahmoud Khalil.

in note It was obtained by Associated PressForeign Minister Marco Rubio He said that the government can expel the legal population of the country based on “beliefs, statements, associations, or current, current or expected societies.” The memorandum came in response to the Federal judge’s order to show evidence in her case against Khalil.

Khalil was seized by federal agents inside him Columbia University Housing last month and transferred it to a detention center in Louisiana.

Rubio withdrew the alleged power to activists from the 1952 law that determines the Minister of Foreign Affairs, could suspend the individual to deport if they could have “serious, serious consequences in foreign policy.” It is rarely mysterious, though Legal experts say The federal government cannot cancel the person’s green card.

Rubio claimed in the memo that Khalil’s participation in Protests supporting the Palestinian On the campus on Colombia, a belief that deserves deportation based on “US policy to combat anti -Semitism around the world.”

“Overcoming the anti -Semitic behavior and sabotage protests in the United States will strongly undermine the goal of the important foreign policy.”

The claim is in line with the former Rubio proposal that university students who “create Rocos” were able to deport. Rubio presented this case while defending his decision to cancel a doctoral candidate at the University of Tatsa Romisa Ozturk about an editorial that she criticized for the campus protests.

“Every time I find one of these crazy people, I take out their visa,” Rubio He told reporters last month. “Count and do that in your country.”

Legal experts say that the authority demanded by Rubio, which was left without challenge, will constitute a significant erosion of civil freedoms in the United States.

“Welcome to the era of thought crimes,” the prominent national security lawyer Bradley Moss wrote On Bluezki.

KHALIL is one of at least 600 international students in 100 colleges in the United States who claim that Rubio has stripped their visas, for each Interior Higher Education Report. Thousands of others can face a similar fate after the Ministry of National Security announced a plan Clear social media publications It is not citizens of the ideology supporting the Palestinian or anti -Semitic on Wednesday.