Journalist Ahmed Eldin says pro-Palestine students facing deportation from the US haven’t been shown any criminal evidence against them.
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00:00No, no, but Melinda, we talk about Mahmoud and the other students who've been disappeared and at Tufts and at Columbia.
00:06Well, they're not being prosecuted for any criminal conduct.
00:09Maybe the other panelists can explain to me.
00:12I understand there's an archaic law from 1952 that's granting the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
00:18this broad authority to deport anyone deemed to be a threat to U.S. foreign policy.
00:22It's being weaponized against these students.
00:25Currently, it's being weaponized against students who are pro-Palestinian or Palestinian themselves.
00:30But I want to know, what are the crimes?
00:32What are the actual crimes?
00:34I mean, there's been no evidence of criminal misrepresentations, even on Mahmoud's green card.
00:40All that I believe was offered in support of his case was a two-page memo by Marco Rubio
00:46containing no allegations of criminal conduct, but simply arguing that Mahmoud Khalil should be expelled from America,
00:53not just from Columbia, for beliefs that undermine core American interests.
00:58What are those beliefs?
00:59I'd like to know.