Harvard graduate: Deportees are duly processed

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Harvard graduate Shabbos Kestenbaum says the Arab students mentioned weren’t deported but detained and will go through proper legal processing to determine deportation.

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00:00Shabos, what do you consider to be hostile values?

00:06And do you think, is it legal that those people are deported?

00:10Well, first of all, let's be clear.

00:12No one has actually been deported except the students who self-deported.

00:15What we're talking about is being detained.

00:17I mean, you brought up Mahmoud Khalil.

00:19You could go on the ISIS website right now when we know where Mahmoud Khalil is.

00:22He's in a detention center in Louisiana.

00:24They're all having due process afforded to them.

00:26They will have to make their arguments in front of a judge.

00:29The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, raised his argument, which is that Mahmoud Khalil is in violation of his student visa.

00:35Had he been accurate on his visa application, saying that he believes in the eradication of Western civilization, which he does.

00:40He's the former negotiator or spokesman, I don't know what terminology he used, of the Columbia University Apartheid Divestment Coalition.

00:46He was in charge, or again, negotiating, while the students were occupying Hamilton Hall,

00:51which was a protest that not only vandalized private property, but also sent police officers to the hospital, took a maintenance worker hostage.

00:57So had he said that that was going to be his intention, there would be no way he would be given a student visa.

01:01I actually lived in Israel for three years on a student visa.

01:04And when I got the student visa, there was a contract I had to sign.

01:07And it basically said, well, if you don't follow our laws, we will deport you back to the United States.

01:11And that kind of made sense.

01:13It's not Islamophobic.

01:13It's not controversial.

01:14It's not bigoted.

01:15It just makes sense.

01:16You have to follow the laws of your own country.

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