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Trump Admin Wins: Mahmoud Khalil Ordered Deported by Immigration Judge

RedState  

After a highly contentious, months-long battle, infamous pro-Hamas activist and Syrian national Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge. 

This marks what the Trump administration hopes will be the final legal order in the case, which has seen more twists and turns than a mountain road. In August, Khalil once again justified the October 7th attacks, speaking of himself as if he were a direct member of Hamas. 

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Khalil's Latest Interview Shows Why He Should Be Deported Immediately 

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KLEIN: I did a piece right after October 7, and one of the things that seemed clear to me, very, very quickly on that day, as you’re watching the images, as you’re hearing the screams, you’re seeing the videos of people of Jewish Israelis being paraded around of corpses is both that this attack is horrific and that the counterattack is going to be overwhelming. And that on some level, I understood that as something Hamas must have wanted. Pull Israel into this attack. Pull it into some kind of war. Maybe you involve other players in the Middle East, but a lot of lives were being used there as kind of chips on the table. Was that your perception? Or did you see this as something that needed to happen to break the equilibrium?

KHALIL: I think it’s more the latter. Just to break the cycle. To break that the Palestinians are not being heard. And to me, it’s a desperate attempt to tell the world that Palestinians are here, that Palestinians are part of the equation. That was my interpretation of why Hamas did the October 7 attacks on Israel. Because at that point, there was no political process. It was clear that the Saudi-Israel deal is very imminent. And Palestinians wouldn’t have any path to statehood and self-determination. So they had to do that.

Even though Khalil had allegedly lied on his green card application about his support for terrorism, he has enjoyed a series of judicial orders keeping him in the United States. For their part, Democrats have latched onto his case as a rallying point, doing everything they can to protect him from deportation. That even though Khalil originally entered as a student, but had already graduated, he had been spending his time leading pro-Hamas rallies and joining arms with those who call for a "global intifada." 

Now, after the Trump administration first ordered him removed from the country in March, Khalil has finally run out of runway. Well, at least, it looks like he has. 

An immigration judge in Louisiana has ordered pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the U.S., deported to Syria or Algeria for failing to disclose certain information on his green card application, according to documents filed in federal court Wednesday by his lawyers.

Khalil’s lawyers suggested in a filing that they intend to appeal the deportation order, but expressed concern that the appeal process will likely be swift and unfavorable.

Khalil's only hope, as admitted by his lawyers, is to beg a judge in New Jersey who has previously been favorable to the terror supporter on his habeas claim to step in. As it stands, they do not expect their appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals or the 5th Circuit to succeed. Can the New Jersey judge even do anything here if the appeals court rules? I'll leave that to people far smarter than me to speculate on. Either way, we'll find out fairly quickly.

As for the order itself, it allows Khalil to be deported to his native Syria or to Algeria. You can expect the Trump administration to move quickly here. This has gone on long enough, and it seems fairly clear that Khalil has no legal right to remain in the United States. 

People Who Want 'Misinformation' Regulated Are Mad Jimmy Kimmel Got Pulled Over Misinformation

RedState 

Jimmy Kimmel's run in late-night TV is (likely) over after Nexstar-owned affiliates decided to preempt "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" over comments the host made about Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk's alleged killer.

"Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), today announced that the company's owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight's show," the company said in its statement. 

That, in turn, prompted Disney-owned ABC to pull the show "indefinitely."

ABC Preempting 'Kimmel' Indefinitely After Vile Comments About Assassination

Progressives in the media and across the Internet have collectively risen up to scream about "fascism" and the freedom of speech, based on comments made earlier today by Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said in a podcast interview. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

But the same progressives (including those with anchor, reporter, or pundit jobs in the media) who are ever so worried about the freedom of speech being curtailed by government pressure worked very hard to try and convince Americans that the government should police "misinformation."

Kimmel Told a Vile Lie—And the Network Let It Ride

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said the night before on his show. 

But the show, like all late-night shows, is pre-taped hours beforehand and edited to fit in its designated time slot. Typically, network Standards and Practices departments review the material for any legally problematic material. Apparently, making a claim that was completely unsupported by facts to try to shift the blame of a killing off on a group of people targeted by that (alleged) killer was not problematic in the eyes of ABC's Standards and Practices department.

And please do not give me the excuse that this was a "joke" or some other foolishness like that. He was making a political point without any semblance of a legitimate punchline to accompany the statement. He was straight-up calling Tyler Robinson a "one of them" (meaning "MAGA") and denying that the young man was inspired in any way by leftist political rhetoric.

The Affiliates Spoke, and the Network Listened

Neither ABC nor Disney moved to immediately cave to pressure from Carr and the FCC. Truthfully, I wish Carr had let the TV equivalent of natural selection work its way through without his commentary, but this cancellation came after the network's affiliates spoke up in outrage.

One thing you might not realize is that, while it's not always visible, local media tend to be a bit more neutral than the national programming. Yes, the journalism industry as a whole is filled with center-left workers, but the local outlets tend to bear the brunt of the outrage from local viewers. So while ABC and Disney are safely insulated from angry people in various markets throughout Not The Coastal Urban Metropolises Of America, it is extremely bad for business for the local affiliates to air content guaranteed to piss off a huge chunk of their audience during an extremely tense time like this.

I don't know how closely you all pay attention to your local media outlets, but advertising revenue is not the most consistent thing right now, and enraging and turning away your audience is ill-advised at best.

The Anti-Misinformation Crowd Is Mad Kimmel Got Fired for Egregious Misinformation

Let's take a look at guys like Chris Hayes, who are very very certain this is an attack on Free Speech.

But Hayes is a progressive, and his side has been calling for the government to regulate misinformation by going after social media networks and media outlets that push information they deem inaccurate/false, whether it is or isn't.

Remember, the Biden administration established the Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security specifically to go after COVID "misinformation" (which was an incredibly nebulous category). Nina Jankowicz, who led that body before it was dismantled, was an advocate for regulating information and even called for the "prebunking" of "misinformation."

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has likewise repeatedly called for regulating any platform that allows "misinformation" to be uttered. Even Hayes has erred dangerously close to calling for it. In 2020, he repeatedly urged stronger government oversight of social media to combat election misinformation, and he later supported things like the For the People Act, which included provisions for online platform transparency and regulation of political ads to curb "false claims."

What Kimmel did was tell a straight lie. There is no publicly available evidence to suggest Robinson was MAGA. Everything prosecutors have released shows a man radicalized by leftist Internet communities, angry at his pro-Trump father, and angry at Charlie Kirk over his conservative views.

Spare Me the Outrage

I think Carr probably spoke out of turn and should have let things play out normally, but truthfully, it’s clear this would have happened with or without his comments. ABC didn’t pull Kimmel on a whim. Nexstar said they were preempting his show for the foreseeable future. If one of the biggest local media affiliate groups isn’t airing a show (that isn’t generating top ratings) because the host said something egregiously false and inflammatory, Kimmel’s days were numbered anyway. 

I believe in the First Amendment and free speech. I think Carr flew too close to violating that with his comments, but I also think that the result would have been the same with or without his statement. Kimmel made a really inflammatory and false comment, and his show has been pulled because of it.

You can scream to High Heaven about the First Amendment all you want, my dear progressive friends, but you've been calling for this exact solution to misinformation for years. 

Gov. Cox Has Spent Years Embracing The ‘Trans’ Ideology That Corrupted Charlie Kirk’s Killer

As Utah governor, Cox has regularly embraced transgenderism and its accompanying delusions.

The  Federalist 

Since the tragic assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, conservative voters have rightly criticized weak-kneed responses from elected Republicans, whose refusal to confront leftist-led political violence has arguably contributed to the growing problem. While much of this frustration has been directed at figures like GOP Sens. James Lankford and Thom Tillis, there’s one notable Republican whose left-wing antics have gone unaccounted for: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.

During a Sunday interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Cox was asked by left-wing hack Dana Bash about comments made by Trump ally Steve Bannon. Addressing Cox’s response to Kirk’s assassination at a Utah university, Bannon reportedly called the governor a “national embarrassment,” and said in part, “In a time where we need action, he tells us to sing kumbaya and hold hands with Antifa.”

Cox acknowledged Bannon is “rightfully” angry but insisted he is “not saying we have to just sing kumbaya and hold hands” and that “we actually should disagree.” While he went on to praise Kirk’s willingness to engage with those he disagreed with, the GOP governor handed legacy media the soundbite they were clearly looking for by characterizing Kirk’s rhetoric as “inflammatory.”

“What I’m saying is, we actually should disagree. I think Charlie represented that better than anyone,” Cox said. “Charlie said some very inflammatory things. And in some corners of the web, that’s all people have heard. But he also said some other things about forgiveness. He said some amazing things about, when things get dark, putting down our phones, reading Scripture, going to church, talking to our neighbors.”

The moment may not seem like much when compared to the pathetic responses from Republicans like Lankford and Tillis. But in actuality, it offered Americans a window into the kind of Republican Cox truly is.

While the Beehive State governor deserves credit for attempting to bring a sense of comfort to Utahns and other Americans grieving Kirk’s assassination, it is impossible to ignore his role in promoting the same destructive ideology that ultimately corrupted the mind and soul of Kirk’s killer. As governor, Cox has regularly embraced transgenderism and its accompanying delusions.

While speaking virtually to a group of schoolchildren in 2021, for instance, Cox advanced the false notion that one can choose their sex and gender pronouns. After a female who proclaimed to be bisexual introduced herself using her preferred pronouns, the GOP governor followed suit and touted anti-American DEI ideology in the process.

“I am Gov. Spencer Cox, and I have the pleasure today of hosting the first One Utah Student Town Hall, and my preferred pronouns are ‘he, him, and his.’ So, thank you for sharing yours with me,” Cox said. “I believe in helping young leaders learn and grow by listening to them and by providing platforms to share their voices. Leading with equity and inclusion starts at a young age …”

Cox also previously listed his preferred pronouns in his Instagram bio at one point, but has since deleted them, according to a March 2022 Daily Wire report. 

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The Beehive State governor’s track record on transgenderism gets even worse.

In spring 2022, Cox vetoed legislation seeking to bar trans-identifying men from competing in women’s sports. His reasoning for doing so? That he wanted to “err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion.”

“I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it and the science is conflicting,” Cox wrote at the time about a destructive ideology whose accompanying “medical” procedures harm its adherents.

Fortunately, the state legislature overwhelmingly overrode Cox’s veto to protect the sanctity of women’s sports.

Shoehorning radical gender ideology down Utahns’ throats under the guise of “kindness” and “inclusion” also appeared to be behind Cox’s decision to designate June as “LBGTQ+ Pride Month” in 2021. The move was “the first such statewide designation in Utah’s history,” according to Deseret News.

While Cox did sign a bill in 2023 that purported to prohibit damaging “trans” procedures for minors, the legislation, as Tristan Justice previously noted in these pages, “doesn’t do much of anything.” 

“The new law signed by the Utah governor … only bars transgender procedures and hormone interventions for minors who have not been diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” Justice wrote. “In other words, minors can find a sympathetic physician steeped in wrongly named ‘gender-affirming care’ who will give them a diagnosis that enables them to pump their bodies full of wrong-sex hormones and amputate their healthy organs. Teens focused on gender-bending can even be diagnosed online.”

Contrary to his apparent belief otherwise, Cox’s years-long willingness to not only accommodate but promote “trans” ideology is the exact opposite of compassion. Indulging and advancing the anti-truth delusions of gender dysphoric individuals is harmful to them and — as evidenced by Kirk’s assassination — others.

This is not to blame Cox for Kirk’s assassination. The monster who pulled the trigger is ultimately the one responsible for such barbarity.

But the fact remains that the cowardice of feckless Republicans like Cox and their refusal to confront the left’s radical ideology have helped foster an environment in which unhinged leftists feel emboldened to step outside the norms of civil discourse. That is, these extremists have come to view violence against their political opponents as an acceptable way to acquire and maintain power.

Elected Republicans have a duty-bound obligation to crush such violent forces using every and all legal tools available to protect the lives of their constituents. Anything short of that is unacceptable.

‘Cut that….Out’: JD Vance Blows Up Over Media Claims That Assassin's Motive Is Unknown

RedState 

Vice President JD Vance has had it with legacy media's and Democrats' attempts to claim that we have no idea what Charlie Kirk's assassin's motive was, despite numerous law enforcement authorities sharing that the suspected killer, with a trans-identifying male boyfriend, was influenced by leftist ideology.

In a clip from Fox News' interview with Vance that will air later on Wednesday on "Jesse Watters Primetime," Watters and the VP talked about how those on the left were feigning ignorance about why the suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, committed this heinous act, and Vance brought the receipts that prove what they have been doing.

Warning: profanity is included in the video below.

"You talk to the shooter's mother, you talk to the shooter's father. You talk to the local district attorney," Vance said. "You talk to the FBI Director or the Deputy Director at the FBI. You look at every ounce of evidence that we have, and it is clear."

"This is a person who grew up in a pretty normal family…who was radicalized by the far left, by the social networks of the far left and by the ideas of the far left," he added. "And got so far down the path of radicalization that he killed my friend [Charlie Kirk]! That is not a 'both sides' problem."

"My friend is dead because of left-wing political radicalization," Vance concluded. "And if you want to cut that [..] out, then be honest about it and look yourself in the mirror."

In a second clip that surfaced ahead of their interview, the two talked about how people were celebrating the murder of the Turning Point USA founder.

"It's disgusting. I would ask if you were the kind of person who feels joy at the death of a grieving mother and grieving children, what bad decisions have led you to where you are today?" Vance said. "And why don't you get back on the right path?"

Vance pointed out that the First Amendment protects all speech, including very ugly speech."But if you celebrate Charlie Kirk's death, you should not be protected from being fired for being a disgusting person."

I second Vance being infuriated by the lies from members of the media, Democrats, and those on the left who have claimed that we don't know Robinson's motives when the truth is we do know. The reason they want to hide those facts is that it hurts the Democrat Party and their leftist agenda.

As my RedState colleague Nick Arama reported, CNN's Kaitlan Collins took that ignorance of a motive to a new level when she said that law enforcement had yet to provide a motive while speaking with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). 

Arama wrote:

"Of course, we know. Come on," replied Cruz. "We don't have a motive yet? Really? Really, that's CNN's position? He just happened to fire the gun in celebration? You can't tell the motive here?" That was a reference to former MSNBC host Matthew Dowd's depraved suggestion that a supporter might have shot off the gun as part of a "celebration." Cruz blasted her claim as "objectively false...CNN should not be engaged in misinformation." 

Cruz is right, the authorities have said that he was a leftist who claimed that Charlie Kirk spread hate. The charges also alleged that he targeted Kirk for his political expression. So what does Collins think that means? Denying that the authorities laid out a motive is truly problematic for an alleged news network. 

Members of the legacy media have gone into full attack mode to desperately try to erase the fact that Kirk's killer was influenced by the radical ideology of the left and the things they too support. And those on the right must not let up and fight to tell the truth about Kirk's murderer, and the left's part in spreading this evil ideology.

The Babylon Bee Is Outraged To Learn Jimmy Kimmel Was Canceled Just For Being MAGA Republican

Media·Sep 17, 2025 · BabylonBee.com

We are disgusted to learn that Disney has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air simply for him being a MAGA Republican.

No one has stood for MAGA more than Jimmy Kimmel. Raised by a Republican family in a conservative area, Kimmel embodies everything MAGA stands for.

"We are horrified and saddened by the loss of a great MAGA voice like Jimmy Kimmel," said Bee CEO Seth Dillon. "He loved Trump more than life itself. You simply cannot pretend he was anything other than a Trump lover."

We at The Babylon Bee call on Disney to do the right thing and bring back the conservative, right-wing, MAGA hero known as Jimmy Kimmel.

President Trump and Vice President Vance Will Be Attending Charlie Kirk Funeral

It is not common when both the sitting President of the United States and the Vice President attend the same funeral together, when it is not a nationally recognized dignitary.

Both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance will be honoring Charlie Kirk at the funeral service.  It is a fitting and considerate reflection of great honor, worthy of Kirk’s impact.

My dear friends, there is so much background stuff happening we are all watching in the aftermath of the Kirk assassination, it is difficult to find the words for any outline of value.

I cannot imagine how challenging life is for Charlie Kirk’s family right now, and out of the greatest respect I feel the best thing to do is just do nothing except honor his faith, work and legacy.  I have made the decision not to cover any of the controversial aspects, direct or ancillary, beyond what I have already shared.

Do I have opinions, yes.  And when my brain is full of things I want to say – my prayers and life lessons have guided me to understand that is exactly when it is best to say nothing.

My inner voice tells me to remain silent on any of the ancillary subjects until Charlie Kirk is laid to rest with great honor and tribute.  Then, when it is appropriate, to provide my personal thoughts on facets that may be valuable in context.

Feel free to share any subject matter in/around the storyline of this tragedy on any open thread where we can gather in fellowship. I know a lot of people are hurting.

Channel that hurt into meaningful prayer for them.