It’s always great when liberal judges like to protect foreigners who hate the US and Jews even when they have no legal standing to do so
Appeals court overturns release order for foreign student arrested in Vermont
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled a judge erred in ordering the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, whose arrest at his naturalization interview became a flash point in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students.
Last year, the district judge found the administration was likely targeting Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student, for his protected speech about the Israel-Hamas war.
In its Tuesday decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that federal law barred the courts from getting involved so soon.
“We conclude that the district court should not have reached this question,” U.S. Circuit Judge Debra Ann Livingston wrote for the panel.
It’s a major win for the administration, which has targeted foreign students who’ve criticized Israel and fought back against legal challenges in part by arguing that judges have limited jurisdiction to second-guess the crackdown.
This “student”, who was 35 at the time and seemed to spend all his time protesting in favor of Hamas and demonizing Israel and Jews, was ordered deported by Sec Of State Rubio as a threat to foreign policy. He now has a final order of deportation, and NICE can scoop Mahdawi up and detain him. But, he can still appeal being deportation, which is insane that foreigners can stay in the US for years instead of just being booted.
But Mahdawi’s lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union warned that without review in the meantime, he won’t have any remedy to stop the government from detaining him.
“Today’s decision is a grave setback, although I am confident justice will ultimately prevail,” Mahdawi said in a statement. “It reflects a dangerous failure under political pressure, one that risks turning the federal courts into instruments of politics rather than guardians of constitutional freedom.”
See, you have crazy people protecting a Hamas supporter, so, he can stick around for years unlike most other illegals.
In one way, the United States has been more fortunate than the democracies of Europe: most, though certainly not all, of the illegal immigrants in our country have been Christians, primarily Catholics, from central and south America. But we have had far, far, far too many who have gotten here with third world culture and Islamist sensibilities. They are the enemies of the Western civilization which is the bedrock of our nation and our culture.
We used to think that the blessings of democracy and freedom and Western civilization could be spread to the savage areas of the world, and we succeeded in limited areas: Japan and South Korea being great examples. Our British cousins tried that through the spread of the Empire across the world, but absent the devastation of war, it really didn’t take very strongly, save in limited places like Hong Kong and Singapore.
The younger President Bush had hoped that democracy could spread to and through Iraq, with the Ba’ath Party dictatorship defeated, but it just didn’t work, and that leaves Israel as our easternmost bulwark against seventh century Islamist barbarism. Unfortunately, enemies of Western civilization like Mr Mahdawi were allowed in, and allowed to fester. They need to be gone.