White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that former Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and his green card revoked for “siding with terrorists.”
Leavitt addressed Khalil’s situation during a press conference on Tuesday and said a crime was not necessary to justify the deportation of a foreign national from the United States.
“Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the secretary of State has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America,” Leavitt said.
“Mahmud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of coming to this country to study at one of our nation’s finest universities and colleges, and he took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege by siding with terrorists – Hamas terrorists who have killed…
