Democrats continue to disrespect Americans by siding with illegal immigrants and with people who hate our values and do not respect our laws.
On Tuesday, April 22, a group of democrats visited the pro-Hamas protesters they claim are “unlawfully held in harrowing conditions.”
Ironically, numerous American hostages remain hostage in Gaza under actual harrowing conditions, but you never see the same outrage from these democrats.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) were among the group of five Democrats who visited the anti-Israeli protesters, Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, whom Pressley described as her “constituent” despite both being foreign-born citizens who cannot vote in American elections.
Out-of-state Democrats Reps. Troy Carter (LA) and Bennie Thompson (MS) also joined the delegation to show solidarity with the anti-Israeli protesters.
Born to Palestinian parents in Syria, Khalil, 30, a Columbia University alumnus, was arrested on March 9, 2025, by immigration officials coordinating with the State Department while leading anti-Israeli protests at the institution.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused him of involvement in pro-Hamas activities. Khalil who has barely condemned the kidnapping of American citizens by Hamas, compared the detention conditions to “Nazi concentration camp.”
“I feel ashamed to compare my conditions in ICE detention with Nazi concentration camps, yet, some aspects of Frankl’s experience resonate,” he wrote.
Even Hamas hostages who were held in underground tunnels, almost starved, witnessed and underwent physical and mental abuse, and were forced to participate in Hamas propaganda videos, had more respect for Nazi concentration camps victims and would not casually compare themselves.
It’s mind-boggling that a foreigner, who is accorded the privilege of being in the country and attend an elite government-funded university, and still enjoys every civil right in the books, even meeting politicians, could compare himself to Frankl, who was not guaranteed the next meal or even being alive the next second.
“Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” DHS tweeted.
Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan warned anti-Israel protesters that, unlike under the Biden administration, they could no longer get away with spreading terrorist propaganda while destroying government property.
“You can’t go and call for the annihilation of Israel and take over a college campus and take over a college building and destroy government property. You can’t hand out literature supporting a terrorist organization.”
He also noted that a visa or resident alien status were privileges that hinged on the holders’ ability to respect the laws of the country.
“They’re not going to get away with it under the Trump administration. When you come to this country, either on a visa or you become a resident alien, that’s a privilege. But with that privilege comes certain rules. You can’t violate [the] law.”
Turkish-born Ozturk was arrested at Massachusetts’ Tufts University while engaging in anti-Israel activism. He also co-authored an anti-Israeli op-ed piece calling for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against the Jewish state.
According to the seemingly leftist Anti-Defamation League (ADL), BDS advocates for Palestine’s right to self-determination while denying Israel’s right to exist. Even leftist Soros-backed American Jewish Committee acknowledges that while BDS advocates for “peaceful” resistance, the movement leadership wishes for the elimination of the Jewish state. Even Harvard, which is tangled in lawfare against Trump and allows anti-Israeli protests, somehow accommodates the perception that BDS is anti-Semitic.
