More and more, it seems we’re finding that people in the public eye have either exaggerated or flat-out lied about the extent of the accomplishments in their personal lives to enhance their stature. Think gnarly combat veterans Tim Walz or Richard Blumenthal, Bronze Star recipient Wes Moore, or ordinary working-class McDonald’s counter clerk Kamala Harris.
All were fairy tales carefully, but also carelessly spun for the benefit of burnishing their personal luster with a target audience.
It’s easy to get busted, you know?
In a similar vein, what one purposefully leaves out of a thoughtfully built public persona is just as important, particularly if it’s information that’s germane to official paperwork.
One presumes that when filling out official forms, the signer is being honest once they attest by virtue of their signature and date, that all the information within is true and complete.
This rule holds, be it tax returns, driver’s licenses, or for everything from mortgage to visa and green card applications.
Don’t be a cheater pants.
It seems easy enough, but alas.
I’ve got a great example to use for this here, and it’s darn near breaking news.
For months now, the Trump administration has been in a pitched battle with progressive immigration activists and pro-Palestinian protest elements over their efforts to deport one Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian Palestinian, green card-holding, Hamas sympathizing, Jewish student intimidating, university campus protest-organizing thug.
Khalil was the Left’s first ‘Maryland Man’ cause célèbre, only he’s a terrorist supporting campus chaos agent and provocateur on a green card, not an illegal human trafficker.
There has been a tug-of-war since Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked Khalil’s status, ordered his arrest, and removal, and the charming lad was taken to an immigration hold in Louisiana as the immigration system there battled federal habeas corpus cases filed in New Jersey.
In May, a federal immigration judge ruled Khalil could be deported, and Khalil smack-talked the heck out of her at the hearing.
WHY IS EVERYBODY ALWAYS PICKIN’ ON ME?
…Judge Jamee Comans said during the two-hour hearing Friday that the feds had “established by clear and convincing evidence that [Khalil] is removable.”
Khalil asked to speak to Comans at the end of the hearing, according to his lawyers, arguing she had not given him “the due process and fundamental fairness” she said were so important at a prior hearing Tuesday.
“Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process,” Khalil claimed.
A federal judge in NJ eventually ruled, no, he could not be deported, and in June ordered the ‘family man’ released.
Pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was released from detention Friday evening, ending more than three months of custody in a test of the executive branch’s power to unilaterally act against legal U.S. residents.
Khalil, whose plight has been center stage in President Donald Trump’s crackdown on vocal opponents of Israel’s incursion into Gaza, had been in immigration agents’ custody since March.
He was released from a detention center in Louisiana just after 6:30 p.m. Friday, hours after a federal judge ordered that he be freed.
“Although justice prevailed,” he said upon his release, “it’s long, very long overdue. And this shouldn’t have taken three months.”
He said he was traveling back to New York and couldn’t wait to reunite with his wife and infant son, who was born while he was in custody.
“Trump and his administration, they chose the wrong person for this,” said Khalil, who was a key figure in Columbia campus protests against the war in Gaza last year. “That doesn’t mean that there is a right person for this. There’s no right person who should be detained for actually protesting a genocide, for protesting their university, Columbia University.”
Progressives were beside themselves with joy, greeting the anti-American, Jew-hating Hamas organizer like a returning hero.
If you’re lucky, you will find a romantic partner who looks at you the way @AOC looks at America-hating antisemite Mahmoud Khalil. pic.twitter.com/UQsD8LVXoT
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) June 21, 2025
Like a long-lost mutant son.
Mahmoud Khalil openly and publicly declared his support for the October 7 race massacres of Jews.
I have absolutely no idea why any Senator would want to meet with him like he’s some kind of hero, let alone have him in the country https://t.co/6paWHUImsz
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) July 26, 2025
The administration immediately appealed the federal judge’s order, but that didn’t mean they stopped crawling up every aspect of Khalil’s entry into this country.
In the meantime, the Left continued with the Khalil worship and deification.
FAMILY MAN
Look at this modern day pieta…except instead of rushing home to jail to his newborn and wife and making that a priority, he was right back out there with his activism.
— Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn 🎗 (@SaraHirschhorn1) September 10, 2025
It turns out that even as the touching magazine cover of the family man was being readied for release, Trump immigration and State Department officials had discovered a few omissions from Mahmoud Khalil’s green card applications that would very likely have impacted his initial approval in a negative fashion, and they presented what they’d found to Judge Jamee Comans back in Louisiana.
You might remember her name. She’s the immigration judge Khalil had already mouthed off to.
Seems important and devious enough to have torqued Judge Comans off royally.
WAVE G’BYE
Immigration judge rules Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Syria or Algeria citing green card fraud: court docs https://t.co/rNl3iG4ycc pic.twitter.com/uxKCYJsGbN
— New York Post (@nypost) September 18, 2025
What had the baby-faced lover of baby killers neglected to include on his application to enter the United States legally?
…In that order, Comans cited that on June 20, the court issued a written decision denying Khalil’s application for asylum and ordered he be removed to Algeria and Syria.
She doubled down on that ruling, saying the court found Khalil’s “lack of candor on his I-485 form was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.” The form is an application to register permanent residence or adjust status.
“Rather, this Court finds that Respondent willfully misrepresented material fact(s) for the sole purpose of circumventing the immigration process and reducing the likelihood his applications could be denied. This Court cannot and will not condone such an action by granting a discretionary waiver,” Comans said.
…Khalil, a native of Syria and citizen of Algeria, entered the United States on a student visa in December 2022, and his status was adjusted to lawful permanent resident last November.
The Trump administration has accused Khalil, a green card holder, of withholding information about his membership in certain organizations, including that he was a political officer of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency of Palestine Refugees and that he was part of Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Furthermore, the Trump administration said he failed to disclose his previous employment at the Syria Office in the British Embassy in Beirut in his permanent residency application last year.
So the family man worked for the Hamas-enabling UNRWA? The same UNRWA whose workers participated in the October 7 abomination?
And he didn’t think to mention it?
I HEARD SYRIA’S LOVELY THIS TIME OF YEAR
Mahmoud Khalil will likely be deported after withholding ties to Hamas-linked @UNRWA on his green card application— the same organization whose workers doubled as terrorists on Oct. 7.
His lawyers plan to appeal but confessed “the process will likely be swift and unfavorable.” pic.twitter.com/Y4vsSfHIdo
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) September 18, 2025
Khalil’s lawyers have thirty days to appeal, but this one should stick and stick good….
…In a letter to the New Jersey federal judge, Michael Farbiarz, Khalil’s lawyers said they have 30 days from Sept. 12, the date of the immigration judge’s ruling, to appeal her decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The lawyers said they expect that process to be “swift” and that an appeal of the BIA decision, which would go to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, is unlikely to be successful, since, they wrote, the appeals court “almost never” grants stays of removal to noncitizens.
“As a result,” they wrote, “the only meaningful impediment to Petitioner’s physical removal from the United States would be this Court’s important order prohibiting removal during the pendency of his federal habeas case.” And, they wrote, “nothing would preserve his lawful permanent resident status.”
As for the family man, he has a big WAAH! on.
YOU FASCISTS!!
…In a statement, Khalil, a Palestinian originally from Syria, accused the Trump administration of using “fascist tactics.”
Whatever. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way HOME.
The weeping and gnashing of teeth over this insufferable bag of excrement will be annoying for a while, but once he’s loaded on a plane and winging his way to exotic Damascus to meet the new administration, he’s someone else’s problem.
He’s now a cautionary note to every other vicious piece of anti-American hate that’s been allowed into this country – the rules have changed. You have no ‘right’ to be here, period.
And that’s delightful.
I’d like to leave on a sad but high note, remembering someone who explained to an ardent Khalil defender why and how he needed to go.
As he finally will.
When I saw the news that Mahmoud Khalil was ordered to leave the country today, I thought of this video.
No one said it like Charlie Kirk. pic.twitter.com/ryImlr7nnr— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) September 18, 2025
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