Russia looks like it is following the example of Hamas.

More on the law in the Khalil case. This is what a colleague believes is going to be applied. The relevant seems statute in the INA is 8 USC 1227(a)(4)(C), which allows for deportability when the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to believe that a noncitizen's presence or activities in the United States will have serious adverse foreign policy consequences. The requirements to prove this are not high. They are very low. The relevant decision interpreting the statute is Matter of Ruiz-Massieu, 23 I&N Dec. 833 (BIA 1999). All is required is that the Secretary of State send a letter that sets forth a "facially reasonable and bona fide basis" for a determination of adverse foreign policy consequences.

Since we are on the subject of the I/P conflict, the Pro-Palestinian movement shot itself and the Palestinians that they allegedly cared about in the foot by adopting the anti-Zionist framing for their protests against Israel in the Israel-Hamas War. It basically made an alliance with Netanyahu's critics in Israel, including the families of the hostages, impossible and kept a lot of Diaspora Jews away at the same time. If they didn't make the entire thing about Zionism and Settler-Colonialism and basically realized that Israel's 7 million plus Jews or Israel isn't going anywhere, which nearly all of the surrounding countries accept at this point, than they could have actually had a more productive protest movement.

Not surprisingly, I agree with this analysis. There are dozens of states that call themselves specifically Arab and/or Muslim complete with blasphemy laws, apostasy laws, and Sharia influencing actual law. Even for the people who don't like it, the general attitude is that there is nothing we can do about it.

Plenty of other ethnostates elsewhere in the world like Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Thailand that put their ethnic identity front and center. Even many European states do this in hard or soft matters.

It is the one Jewish state that gets criticized by the Left a lot because the Left considers Israel de facto illegitimate. If Jews still existed in Muslim majority countries and felt alienated by Islam being front and center than the entire world would just shrug at that.

It's a habeus corpus petition.

It turns out that my suspicion is right:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tally-3

My impression that enough Senate Democrats were just going to cave in return for nothing to avoid a budget fight.

Gennocide denialism? Like how people deny what was going on in the Syrian Civil War or Yemeni Civil War, whose death tolls far exceeded the entire I/P conflict, but wail and wail about Israel? Or the people who meet the killings of Alawites in Syria with a shrug while they would jump up and down and demand international action against Israel and every Israeli?

I mean getting concessions and then having them ignored does make you look impotent as an individual politician and as a political party.

Other languages aren't exactly that creative when naming people either. Mahmoud and other variants of Mohammed are just as common as variants of John are in the West. Family names repeat a lot just like Smith, Baker, and Johnson repeat a lot.

Update, Khalil apparently showed up on the ICE tracker in a Louisiana detention center.

Even if the allegations against Khalil are significant to result in removal under the law, the real big issue is that nobody knows where the fish he is. You are supposed to be able to use the ICE detainee tracker to find out where he is being held and nobody can find out this information. There are procedures that need to be followed and they are not being followed in a very disturbing manner.

The low definition of genocide thing is pretty much baked into the Convention Against Genocide, which adopted a pretty broad standard for it to prevent wiggle room at trials.

The arguments regarding the Israel-Hamas War regarding genocide is that the Pro-Palestinian faction is using the broad language of the Convention while the Pro-Israel faction is using the more colloquial definition of genocide and everybody is talking past each other. The Pro-Israel side is skeptical of the Pro-Palestinian side because they never seem to have used the broad definition before in regards to the I/P conflict and because they don't apply this to say the Syrian Civil War or Yemeni Civil War.

My guess is that the Pro-Palestinian side decided to latch onto the broad definition of genocide in the Geneva Convention because they needed to district from Hamas and 10/7.

The answer is that it depends on a variety of factors including a lot of lawyers doing their lawyer thing and what immigration judge the get to. The material support for terrorist bar is pretty draconian and a low one for DHS to meet. It also always occurs doing stuff outside the United States not inside the United States.

What I suspect the DHS argument is going to be is that this guy made a material misrepresentation on his green card application for not disclosing his support of Hamas on it, which is a terrorist group.

One of my new theories and it is mine is that a decent chunk of the left remains politically ineffectual because they want to be tribunes of the oppressed rather than leaders of a majority. You don't need to compromise on your positions if you are a tribune of the oppressed but can remain strident and adamant on every issue. When seeking to lead a majority, you need to compromise quit a bit to get the majority cobbled together.

You were being a constant stream of wolf allegations because they were the correct allegations to make.

People were warned by the Democratic Party during the 2024 elections. Too many people did not believe what the Democratic Party said would happen and voted for Trump or decided to do KDP cosplay and say the Democrats were worse. The people in defiance are still raising their fists in blood thirsty defiance.

This is classic dictator stuff. People need to take warning.

What foot-faults have the Democrats committed over the years? What political universe are you writing from?

You have one Third Reicher on your show and you have a Third Reich show.

The AfD is too on the march in Germany for Merz to take the role. France is basically the only country that has the requirements to be the leader of the Free world. That is a liberal society and government, a wealthy developed economy, a well educated citizenry, and an armed forces with nukes.

France actually does send tropes to different conflicts around the world.

Yes or no, Jaybird? One word answers only.

French Senator boldly states that Washington as become Nero's court:

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