You don\u2019t need to hold sympathy for Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s views to see why his targeting is an immense threat to free expression<\/p>\n
The dust is starting to settle on the conflicting reports emerging after immigration officers\u2019 arrest of Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>, a Columbia University protest leader and green card holder, last weekend \u2013 and Americans should be alarmed by the similarities to authoritarian regimes\u2019 speech policing.<\/p>\n The White House has confirmed the arrest took place under a law granting<\/a> the secretary of state unilateral power to act when given \u201creasonable ground to believe\u201d an immigrant\u2019s \u201cpresence or activities in the United States \u2026 would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences\u201d for the country.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You don\u2019t need to hold sympathy for Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s views to see why his targeting is an immense threat to free expression The dust is starting to settle on the conflicting reports emerging after immigration officers\u2019 arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University protest leader and green card holder, last weekend \u2013 and Americans should … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}