The networks spent the better part of last week advocating on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student agitator being processed for denaturalization and deportation due to his activities in material support of Hamas. However, ABC and CBS decided to bite their tongues, completely omitting their story from their evening newscasts.
NBC, though, found a bit of time for the story- albeit tucked into their story on deportations of suspected gangbangers and subsequent detention in a Salvadoran supermax:
KELLY O’DONNELL: In a separate deportation case, a Brown University professor of medicine with a valid visa was detained, then sent back to Lebanon. The Department of Homeland Security posted, that Rasha Alawieh had admitted she attended a funeral for the leader of Hezbollah, considered a terrorist organization by the U.S., and said she supported him….
