DHS Drops the Hammer: Mahmoud Khalil's Algerian Vacation Is About to Get Real

Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals did what appellate courts occasionally remember to do: side with sanity and smack down a lower-court judge who thought he could play king of the immigration hill. The ruling was a clean win for the Trump administration in the long-running deportation saga of former Columbia University darling Mahmoud Khalil.

Khalil, the 30-year-old Syrian-born so-called Palestinian activist who's spent the better part of the last year lawyering his way out of consequences, got nabbed by ICE back in March. He cooled his heels in a Louisiana detention facility until June, when a New Jersey judge decided he was special and ordered him sprung. 

Turns out, that judge was swinging way above his pay grade. The appeals court politely informed him that no, he didn't have the authority to issue such a ruling. Shocking, I know, but judges have been misjudging their absolute power since there had been laws on the books.

Now comes the fun part. A top Department of Homeland Security official spilled the beans to NewsNation's Katie Pavlich: Khalil's about to get rearrested and shipped off to beautiful, sunny Algeria.

Mahmoud Khalil, the Syrian-born activist the Trump administration has sought to deport over pro-Palestinian demonstrations he helped organize in New York, will be retaken into custody and sent to the North African country of Algeria, a top official with the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.

Khalil and his attorneys have spent months playing constitutional whack-a-mole with the White House's efforts to remove the green card holder, who is of Palestinian heritage, insisting it would violate the Constitution. An appellate court decision last week, however, was widely seen as a victory for the Trump administration.

"It looks like he'll go to Algeria. That's what the thought is right now," said Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary for public affairs.

"It's a reminder for those who are in this country on a visa or on a green card. You are a guest in this country, act like it," McLaughlin said.

The Trump team has been saying since early last year that Khalil was providing support to Hamas and that he got creative with the truth on his residency paperwork. Khalil, never one to go quietly, has countersued the administration for $20 million, claiming false imprisonment and "malicious prosecution." Because nothing says "I'm being persecuted" like organizing campus chaos and then crying foul when the bill comes due.

Look, this isn't rocket science. You come here as a guest, whether on a visa or a green card, and decide the best use of your time is helping organize protests that cozy up to terrorist sympathizers and generally make life miserable for everyone else, don't be surprised when the door hits you in the butt on the way out. McLaughlin nailed it: act like a guest. Or don't. 

But Algeria is waiting, and it doesn't do campus tents and chants.

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Score one for borders, rule of law, and not letting Ivy League protest tourism turn into permanent residency. Welcome back to reality, folks. It's refreshing out here.

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They wanted a BIGGER WALL before Trump was POTUS and it's on video

President Trump needs to hold off on declaring a national emergency at the border. All he needs to do is to show the American public the video [below] to make his case that he already mention: that the only reason the left doesn't want a wall along the southern border is because he is president and they don't want him having a win before the 2020 election.

Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich shared the video on Thursday. It shows former President Obama asking for more security at the border in the form of fencing and more. It also shows Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin — a harsh critic of President Trump’s efforts to build a border wall — complaining in 2006 because border fencing legislation that year did not cover enough of the U.S.-Mexico border. He, along with a gaggle of other Democratic hypocrites such as Chuck Schumer (NY), Joe Biden (DE),  Dianne Feinstein (CA) voted to support Obama's efforts.

In fact, the Secure Fence Act of 2006 enjoyed strong bipartisan support, passing the House of Representatives on a 238-138 vote and the Senate 80-19. Overall,   Sixty-four House and 25 Senate Democrats voted for the measure. Dick Durbin was a hold out because he believed the fencing would be inadequate because it would not cover enough of the border--he apparently wanted fencing to run the entire length, based on his comments:

“Our border is more than 2,000 miles long, and we are building 300 or 700 miles worth of fencing and barriers. 

“I would say that that leaves a lot of area uncovered,” he continued. “I guess it’s not a leap of the imagination to believe that people will find a way to go around this wall, around this fence, over or under it, it’s going to happen.”

And the only thing that's different today is that the situation along the southern border has gotten worse, not better.

The video uncovered by Pavlich clearly depicts the Democrats’ support.

Obama argued in favor of the bill saying, “It will authorize some badly needed funding for better fences and better security along our borders that should help stem the tide of illegal immigration in this country.”

Now the hypocrite Durbin, like most of his fellow hypocrite Democrats, opposes Trump’s push for funding for a border wall or barrier, describing the plan as “medieval.”

During an Oval Office meeting with Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month, the president said illegal alien traffic decreased by 92 percent in the San Diego sector, 95 percent in El Paso, Texas, and 92 percent and 95 percent in Tucson and Yuma, Arizona, respectively, after fencing and other barriers were added.

Pelosi called into question those figures; however, they are in line with statistics given by the Border Patrol to NPR in 2006 following the initial erection of double and triple fencing in the San Diego area. Feelings, not facts, matter to Pelosi and her ilk.

According to the Border Patrol, the number of apprehensions of those trying to cross the border illegally dropped from approximately 162,000 at its peak in 2008 to 26,000 in 2017.

Earlier this month, Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot told Fox News the fence also worked in his region.

As part of the Secure Fence Act, a 20-foot tall steel fence was built and the number of border patrol agents was tripled

“It was a 91 percent drop [in crime],” Wilmot said. “It obviously helped us curb some of the criminal activity that we unfortunately had to deal with.”

In 2005, apprehensions by Border Patrol was at 138,400. But in 2017, there was an enormous drop in apprehensions to about 12,900.

Walls work.

It's a new year and the world still hasn't come to an end with President Trump in the White House, in spite of what the media and the left [but I repeat myself] would have you believe.

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CNN's Stelter fails to cover 2 blockbuster stories

The Communist News Network's (CNN) Brian Stelter hosts an oxymoron of a show called "Reliable Sources." 

The only thing reliable about the show is that the only sources they use are the ones that go along with their agenda. In fact, "Reliable Sources" failed to cover several news stories of high importance in his weekly newsletter.

On Friday, Stelter did not, in his newsletter, cover at least two major stories that are of national significance, as his job description prescribes.

The first failure to report regarded the nomination of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson. He withdrew his nomination after being accused of professional misconduct by CNN. 

Yes, by CNN.

Katie Pavlich of Townhall said:

CNN reported earlier this week, on anonymous sourcing, [my italics] that during an overseas trip in 2015 Jackson got drunk and belligerently banged on a female colleagues' hotel door. CNN also reported the Secret Service stopped Jackson and that agents were worried he might wake up President Obama.

The Secret Service subsequently disputed the anonymous source's  claims, writing: "The Secret Service has no such record of any incident; specifically, any incident involving Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson."

But the damage was already done by CNN and the bald-headed geek, Stelter, never mentioned that Jackson was absolved of guilt. He also refused to respond to member of the media who wanted clarification from him about why he didn't include the update.

Stelter's biggest omission that he hid from his naive readers was the revelation that James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence under the Obama administration, leaked information about the anti-Trump dossier to CNN's Jake Tapper and then was awarded a contract with CNN!

This development backed up Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist who reported that CNN helped orchestrate a setup of President Trump that eventuated the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Stelter again refused to answer the media over this issue.

Then, to prove just how biased Stelter and CNN are, he suggested that Republicans who didn't trust the media suffer from an "infection."

This remark was made in response to Ryan Struyk, who tweeted: "Only 37% of Republican voters say the news media is "an important part of democracy' vs. a majority, 51%, who says it's 'the enemy of the people,' via new Quinnipiac poll today."

Stelter was raked over the coals over his response to that tweet even more than the stories about CNN that he refused to address.


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Jill Stein is a moron

Jill Stein (I refuse to call her "Dr.") will do anything to gain notoriety. She just had to voice her [stupid] opinion on Saturday evening's conversation about the death of Fidel Castro. 

Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, has imposed herself in the public eye as she raises money for election recounts in 3 states won by Donald Trump and lost miserably by her in all states. (If electoral votes measured intelligence, her IQ would be that of a box of rocks, having received zero electoral votes in her bid for office.)

Many are now wondering why she's asking for recounts and what it would change.

But now, on the death of Castro, the failed candidate went on Twitter with this gem: "Fidel Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire. Presente!"

Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich tweeted back to her: "Hi @DrJillStein, who exactly is the person being oppressed in this photo?" [see the black and white of Castro shooting a bound prisoner.]

Pavlich later added: "And by the way @DrJillStein, you're free to move out of the United States, the "shadowing empire," and to Cuba at anytime."

Jonathan Chait tweeted: "Also, he never had an election close enough to re-count. Or any election, actually."

There were plenty of angry tweets and a few humorous ones. Yair Rosenberg: "Jill Stein deleted her tweet praising Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel on his death. She hasn't deleted this" [he indicated the link to her (above) tweet].

But my favorite was from Michael C. Moynihan: "If you're a lefty who voted for Jill Stein, you got a two-fer: A Castro apologist and a drain on Clinton's vote total."

Then added: "While you're at it, you should ask for a recount of the last Cuban election. 100% for the incumbent seems a bit fishy."

Jill Stein is a moron . . . seriously.



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