Tommy Tuberville Wants Mahmoud Khalil, Other Protesters In Jail: 'Free Speech Is Great, But...'
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The Republican senator condemned college protesters opposed to Israel's war in Gaza on Wednesday and brazenly argued "all of them" belong behind bars.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is joining a chorus of Republican lawmakers in condemning Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and recent Columbia University graduate who organized peaceful protests on campus last year amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.
The Syria-born legal U.S. resident was abducted from his university-owned apartment Saturday by federal immigration agents who didn’t have a warrant or a crime to charge him with. Khalil is currently being held in a detention facility in Louisiana.
While most conservatives who support this apparent First Amendment breach appear content with calls to deport Khalil, Tuberville told Fox Business on Wednesday that he belongs in jail — along with “all” the other protesters supposedly disrupting education.
“The Democrats, basically, they don’t like our country anymore,” said Tuberville. “They just want to tear it down … Every Democrat that we work with up here, they’re gonna take this guy’s side and they’re gonna try to drive this narrative that he’s doing the right thing.”
“You know, we have two levels of education,” Tuberville added. “We have K-12 and we have higher ed. We’ve gotta treat both of them different, but when it comes to protesters, we gotta make sure we treat all of ‘em the same: Send ’em to jail.”
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