House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) doubled down on President Donald Trump’s statement on Tuesday, saying that plans to strip legal immigration status from and deport pro-Hamas agitator Mahmoud Khalil were “just getting started.”
Johnson made the remarks at a press conference after he was asked whether Khalil had actually committed a crime that warranted his deportation, beginning with a reminder to the press that he had visited Columbia University when Jewish students were being advised to stay away from campus out of concern for their physical safety.
“It was dangerous,” he said. “The administrators refused to take control of that campus. They refused to allow the PD, the police department to come in and take control, and it turned into chaos.”
Johnson noted that even though Columbia brought in a new president, the problem has persisted — and the Trump administration has…
