Mahmoud Khalils lawyers claim Nazis enjoy more rights than anti-Israel protesters as they blast judges deportation decision

Lawyers for Columbia University agitator Mahmoud Khalil argued that Nazis can “express their beliefs” in the United States while their client faces deportation – and dramatically warned that “anyone could be next.”Khalil’s attorney, Marc van der Hout, ripped the feds for a “lack of due process” following a ruling in Louisiana immigration court Friday that favored the government’s bid to boot the Syrian-born permanent resident out of the country over his anti-Israel activism on the embattled Ivy League campus.“Our constitution allows people to speak their minds,” van der Hout said at a virtual press conference.“Nazis in this country, the Supreme Court has held, are able to demonstrate, are able to express their beliefs – but not Mahmoud Khalil.The Ku Klux Klan is able to march and express its beliefs – but not Mahmoud Khalil.“We are going to fight for his right to speak out about what’s happening in the Middle East and speak out against what the United States is doing.”Judge Jamee Comans ruled during the two-hour hearing that the government had “established by clear and convincing evidence that [Khalil] is removable” – a decision the rabble-rouser’s legal squad claims she made before the apparent divisive court proceeding even began.Khalil – a 30-year-old green card-holding Palestinian born in Syria – was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his Columbia-funded Manhattan apartment on March 8 following a crackdown by the Trump administration on anti-Israel demonstrators at university campuses.A day later, the student-visa holder, who is also a citizen of Algeria, was then shipped to an ICE detention center in Jena, Louisiana, over a thousand miles away from his pregnant wife, who is an American citizen.His lawyers have since waged a court battle against the Trump administration, which is looking to deport Khalil over his role in disruptive and, at times, violent protests at the elite school, where ...