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AlterNet 3/14/2025 at 12:15 AM EDT

'A stupid fight': Conservative blasts Trump for action 'too absurd to believe'

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One conservative commentator is arguing that President Donald Trump's administration is making a major error by attempting to deport an activist who has yet to be charged with any crimes. in a recent op-ed for the far-right Daily Caller, author John Loftus tore into Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for its prosecution of pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Khalil played a prominent role in the 2024 protests on the Ivy League school's New York City campus. Those protests became a national story amid Israel's military campaign in Gaza following Hamas' October 7 attack.

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