Deport Mahmoud Kahlil

Support for terrorist organizations makes foreigners inadmissible and removable.

I’ve been in Central and Eastern Europe the last week, first for a conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, and lately to teach and appear on a panel in Cluj, Romania, which is in the Transylvania (northwestern) part of the country. I haven’t seen any vampires in my time here, but I’m told you have to go into the forest for that and I’ve been strictly city-bound. And Cluj is a beautiful city, with plenty of structures remaining from its Medieval roots. Maybe I’ll do a post about this trip at some point, including the Romanian Constitutional Court’s decision to disqualify a leading presidential candidate while I was speaking on a panel about election interference. But for now I’ll leave you with (1) the Wall Street Journal review of my new book (which rocketed Lawless back into Amazon bestseller status); (2) Bill McGurn’s WSJ column on the arrest of the leader of Columbia’s pro-Hamas protests, quoting me; and (3) my own take, with my colleague Daniel DiMartino, on why yanking visas and deporting those who support terrorist organizations is both legal and the right thing to do. —IS

Six weeks into the second Trump administration, and days after President Trump vowed to push back on “illegal protests” on college campuses, the State Department has pulled the first visa of a foreign student disruptor, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a legal permanent resident (green-card holder) who engaged in pro-Hamas college chaos.

That’s the right thing to do if we want to fix campus culture. And contrary to misinformed or disingenuous critics, it poses no First Amendment problems.