Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism, told Newsmax on Monday that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist, will be done “as quickly as possible.”
A U.S. immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday that the Trump administration can proceed with its deportation case against Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, holds Algerian citizenship, and became a U.S. lawful permanent resident last year. His wife, Noor Abdalla, is a U.S. citizen.
“The fact is, this individual is associated with and has clearly sympathized with publicly, a terrorist organization [Iranian-backed Hamas],” Gorka told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “When you are in this country as a foreign national, it is a privilege to be here as such. If you are supporting organizations that are responsible for genocidal acts in recent memory, that is a threat to the United States.
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