President Donald Trump slammed a pro-Hamas protester who is in the United States on a visa when asked about the matter on Tuesday afternoon, saying that people like him should be thrown out of the country.
Khalil helped lead demonstrations at Columbia University that championed the terrorist group Hamas.
The Department of Homeland Security wrote on Sunday night that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Khalil after he “led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”
Trump was asked about the matter during an event with Elon Musk after the president said in a social media post earlier in the day that this was “the first arrest of many to come.”
“I think we ought to get them all out of the country,” Trump told reporters when asked about Khalil. “They’re troublemakers. They’re agitators. They don’t love our country. We ought to get them the hell out.”
He said that he listened to Khalil’s statements and thought that they were “plenty bad.”
“And I think we ought to get him the hell out of the country. I watched him. I watched tapes, specifically. I watched tapes,” Trump said. “And you can have him, okay? You can have him and you can have the rest of them.”
“Columbia used to be a good school,” he added. “Now, it’s been overrun because of bad leadership. That’s what happens. Happens to countries, and it happens to universities, and it happens to companies.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the administration’s plan to strip visas or green cards from anyone participating in activities aligned with Hamas, a designated terror organization. “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,” he said.
An anti-Israel group that claims to represent “thousands of Columbia students” publicly acknowledged a deeper truth: they are fighting to “eradicate” Western civilization.
Khalil is a member of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition — which stated in its list of demands that Columbia University should “[s]ever academic ties with Israel universities” and “Defund Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the NYPD” — and joined with the university’s Bengali Student Association to post a statement on Instagram, as Campus Reform reported.
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