The Trump administration said, "Just the beginning," when asked about deporting Mahmoud Khalil. A judge halted the government's attempt to deport him for the time being, but it would not be surprising to see the Trump White House win this argument long term. If so, Trump is right—this is only the beginning.

That quote came when The Free Press asked the White House about Khalil's deportation. Khalil is from Syria and holds a green card, also known as a permanent resident card. Green cards allow you to live in the United States while you work on becoming a permanent resident.

As The Free Press notes, "Until December, [Khalil] was a graduate student at Columbia, where he 'led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,' according to the Department of Homeland Security."

The move is part of a broader move from the State Department, "revoking the student visas and green cards of Hamas supporters." Khahlil and his defenders are attacking this as a violation of his free speech, but he's likely to fail this question—at least under current Supreme Court precedent.

The leading case on the question is from 1952 when the Supreme Court was asked whether the government could deport non-residents who were targeted for joining the Communist Party or related organizations.

The U.S. Supreme Court held that the federal government could deport on this basis. The Court said non-residents were here as a hospitality, not a right, "Under our law, the alien in several respects stands on an equal footing with citizens, but in others has never been conceded legal parity with the citizen. Most importantly, to protract this ambiguous status within the country is not his right but is a matter of permission and tolerance. The government's power to terminate its hospitality has been asserted and sustained by this Court since the question first arose."

The defendants in that case had been in the country for a long time. The Court admitted kicking them out was not nice. "That aliens remain vulnerable to expulsion after long residence is a practice that bristles with severities. But it is a weapon of defense and reprisal confirmed by international law as a power inherent in every sovereign state. Such is the traditional power of the Nation over the alien and we leave the law on the subject as we find it."

When it came to the defendant's speech, the Court noted that the Communist Party involved allowed for the violent overthrow of the government, which the Constitution did not protect. In short, the Court ruled that Communist Party sympathizers who sided with a group seeking the violent overthrow of the government could be deported.

Mahmoud Khalil will likely claim he's a peaceful protestor, pushing the typical line from anti-Israel protestors. But in Khalil's case, there's plenty of evidence he's a part of a group that demands the eradication of Western civilization and to bring October 7 to the United States.

In other words, the government just has to line up Khalil similarly to what they did with Community Party alien residents in the 20th century. And that was not a "red scare" in the 1950s - the government found literal Soviet spies in the Communist Party. The United States had to execute them.

Khalil's supporters are now clashing with police and getting arrested for violent exhibits. These same anti-Israel groups have assaulted and harassed Jews at most of the Ivy League universities. 

This is not conduct or beliefs the United States needs as part of the immigrants we bring here. The United States protects minority groups, like Jews, who are attacked internationally. 

That brings us to a much more critical point: the United States should not grant green cards and other citizenship papers to people who hold these kinds of beliefs. It is fully within the United States' power to reject these requests. 

Becoming an American citizen is not a universal right. It is a privilege we grant to a limited number of people. Those who hate America, our allies, and our people - and America has a strong and beautiful Jewish presence in our history - should not be given any shot at citizenship in America. 

The door needs to be shut and locked for these kinds of migrants. That's the real problem with Mahmoud Khalil. The real problem is that he's here at all. Bringing in immigrants who love the country and want to build on what we have here is the real essence of who we are. There's no requirement to give that to those who hate us and everything America stands for.

There are plenty of other countries who hate Israel, Jews, and Western civilization. Iran is one of them, and they support Hamas. Immigrate there if you love what they believe.