US relies on rare foreign policy provision to try to deport Mahmoud Khalil

Sounds like an incredibly weak case. If someone actually sent money to Hamas or something the government could probably get them on "supporting terrorism". If someone attacked Israeli students the government could get the university on Title VI grounds for allowing discrimination on the basis of national origin.

The fact they're not doing any of those things makes it look like they're grasping at straws here.

It does not matter. It will make people afraid and that is the goal.

If this succeeds, it won't be rare any more.

The “first arrest of many to come”, according to the orange monster.

I remember when Obama droned a US citizen.

What would that admin had done if that terrorist came home and enrolled in a university to spread his message?

They would have gitmo'd him so fast.